Significant Others

by Chadwick, Whitney; Courtivron, Isabelle De

• ISBN13: 9780500278741
• ISBN10: 0500278741
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-01
• 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	7	(8)
Whitney Chadwick
Isabelle de Courtivron
Myths of Creation: Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin	15	(16)
Anne Higonnet
Living Simultaneously: Sonia & Robert Delaunay	31	(20)
Whitney Chadwick
Of First Wives and Solitary Heroes: Clara & Andre Malraux	51	(14)
Isabelle de Courtivron
The ``Left-handed Marriage'': Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant	65	(18)
Lisa Tickner
``Tinder-and-Flint'': Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West	83	(14)
Louise DeSalvo
The Bird Superior meets the Bride of the Wind: Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst	97	(22)
Susan Rubin Suleiman
Beauty to his Beast: Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera	119	(18)
Hayden Herrera
Separate Studios: Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy	137	(18)
Judith D. Suther
The Literate Passion of Anais Nin & Henry Miller	155	(18)
Noel Riley Fitch
Non-negotiable Bonds: Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett	173	(16)
Bernard Benstock
The Art of Code: Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg	189	(20)
Jonathan Katz
Significantly Other: Simone & Andre Schwarz-Bart	209	(14)
Ronnie Scharfman
Fictions: Krasner's Presence, Pollock's Absence	223	(21)
Anne M. Wagner
Notes and Selected Bibliographies	244	(10)
Notes on the Contributors	254	(1)
Index	255