Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

By Dorothea Tanning

Book Overview

Dorothea Tanning, one of the twentieth-century's most original and provocative painters, delivers a vivid account of a fascinating life lived as an artist among artists. Tanning reveals not only her life story, but the irresistibly creative mind that propelled her to live it. From the small town of Galesburg, Illinois, to the art hubs of New York and Paris, Tanning traveled the world of Surrealism and went beyond it, with fellow explorers Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Mir?, James Merrill, and Max Ernst, to whom she was married for over thirty years. Their life together forms an important and moving part of her unforgettable story; a story which, spanning almost a century, magically unfolds through Tanning's incandescent prose.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810120852
• ISBN13: 9780810120853
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 378 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

inspiring

I love this book. Ms Tanning writes with such a zest for life and creativity that I find it just spills over and communicates to the reader. She lived an amzing life and came a long way from sleepy small town America. There was obviously a determination or a restless something at work. Mosty of all I just enjoy the way she writes - it's a lively quircky style but to me it got across the kind of person I imagine Dorothea Tanning to be. A work of character by a character -