London, Thames & Hudson, 1993 (Whitney Chadwick* and Isabelle de Courtivron**, eds).
This book about couples "who have shared a sexual as well as creative partnership" (p. 9) touches the very core of each one of us.
Let me quote just a phrase from the introduction:
"This book is a collective attempt to tackle the questions of gender and creativity from a different vantage point. Traditional biographies and monographs have typically described creativity as an extraordinary (usually male) individual's solitary struggle for artistic self-expression. We decided, instead, to explore the complexities of partnerships and collaborations, painfull as well as enriching. We chose to focus on couples (whether different or same-sex) because couples are endlessly fascinating in the diversity of their interactions." (p. 7).
Let me quote just a phrase from the introduction:
"This book is a collective attempt to tackle the questions of gender and creativity from a different vantage point. Traditional biographies and monographs have typically described creativity as an extraordinary (usually male) individual's solitary struggle for artistic self-expression. We decided, instead, to explore the complexities of partnerships and collaborations, painfull as well as enriching. We chose to focus on couples (whether different or same-sex) because couples are endlessly fascinating in the diversity of their interactions." (p. 7).
Couples focussed in the book:
Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin
Sonia & Robert Delaunay
Clara & André Malraux
Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant
Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West
Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst
Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera
Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy
Anais Nin & Henry Miller
Lillian Hellman & Didier Hammett
Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg
Simone & André Schwarz-Bart
Jackson Pollock & Lee Krasner (on the cover)
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* Prof. of Art at San Francisco State University.
** Prof. of French Studies at the MIT.
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