Significant Others

by Chadwick, Whitney; De Courtivron, Isabelle

• ISBN13: 9780500015667
• ISBN10: 050001566X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-06-01
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson

Summary

Focusing on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and creative bonds, 13 of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions about creativity in this series of highly original essays. Among those examined are Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, and Anais Nin and Henry Miller. 76 illustrations.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Myths of Creation: Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin	p. 15
Living Simultaneously: Sonia and Robert Delaunay	p. 31
Of First Wives and Solitary Heroes: Clara and Andre Malraux	p. 51
The "Left-handed Marriage": Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant	p. 65
"Tinder-and-Flint": Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West	p. 83
The Bird Superior meets the Bride of the Wind: Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst	p. 97
Beauty to his Beast: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera	p. 119
Separate Studios: Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy	p. 137
The Literate Passion of Anais Nin and Henry Miller	p. 155
Non-negotiable Bonds: Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett	p. 173
The Art of Code: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg	p. 189
Significantly Other: Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart	p. 209
Fictions: Krasner's Presence, Pollock's Absence	p. 223
Notes and Selected Bibliographies	p. 244
Notes on the Contributors	p. 254
Index	p. 255
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