The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired - Softcover

Prose, Francine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908526432 ISBN 13: 9781908526434

Verlag: Union Books, 2013

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Críticas:

'Smart, sympathetic, and keenly observed'

(New York Times)

'The subject is one of endless fascination'

(Literary Review)

'Polished and pleasurable'

(Guardian)

'A joy to read'

(Daily Telegraph)

'Racy, pithy... a delight'

(Independent)

Reseña del editor:

To be a muse to a celebrated artist is surely one of the most flattering roles a person can have. But what is the life of a muse really like?

In this spirited (and provocative) expose of nine women who fired the imaginations of some of the most inimitable artists and thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Francine Prose draws on photographs, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and original works of art that reveal the complexity of these artist-muse relationships and illustrate the muse in all her guises: as inspiration, angel, equal partner and, sometimes, monster.

The nine muses are: Hester Thrale (Samuel Johnson), Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll), Elizabeth Siddal (Dante Gabriel Rossetti). Lou-Andreas-Salomé (Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud), Gala Dalí (Salvador Dalí), Lee Miller (Man Ray), Charis Weston (Edward Weston), Suzanne Farrell (George Balanchine) and Yoko Ono (John Lennon).

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• Verlag: Union Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908526432
• ISBN 13: 9781908526434
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432