Lee Miller

by Burke, Carolyn

• ISBN13: 9780226080673
• ISBN10: 0226080676
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-04-23
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller's life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingenue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. A lavishly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism,Lee Millerilluminates an astonishing woman's journey from art object to artist.

Author Biography

Carolyn Burke has taught at Princeton and the University of California at Santa Cruz, among other universities in France, the U.S., and Australia. She is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.

 
 

 
 
 

Table of Contents

Contents
Introduction	p. xi
Elizabeth
A Poughkeepsie Girlhood (1907-15)
Never Jam Today (1915-25)
Circulating Around (1925-26)
Being in Vogue (1926-29)
Miss Lee Miller
Montparnasse with Man Ray (1929-30)
La Femme Surrealiste (1930-32)
The Lee Miller Studio in Manhattan (1932-34)
Madame Eloui Bey
Egypt (1934-37)
Surrealist Encampments (Summer 1937)
The Egyptian Complex (1937-39)
Lee Miller, War Correspondent
London in the Blitz (1939-44)
Covering the War in France (1944-45)
Covering the War in Germany (1945)
Postwar (1945-46)
Lady Penrose
Patching Things Up (1946-50)
A Double Life (1950-61)
A Second Fame (1961-71)
Retrospectives (1971-77)
Afterword
Appendix: A Lee Miller Dinner for Eight
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index
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