Dora Maar with & without Picasso.
- Condition : very good, clean, dust jacket minimal fold marks in margins, cover has minor stains.
- Illustrations : 228 photographs, 87 of which are in colour.
Dora Maar was already a renowned photographer when she met Picasso. She remained with him as his lover and muse for seven years before their stormy relationship came to a painful end in 1943. This biography belies the myth that she remained a tragic figure, broken by genius.
Mary Ann Caws (born 1933) is an American author, art historian and literary critic. She is currently Professor Emerita of English, French and Comparative Literature at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She is a specialist in surrealism and modern English and French literature, and has written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf and Henry James. She works on the interrelationships between visual arts and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, and has edited the diaries, letters and source materials of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell and Edmond Jabès. She was editor of the HarperCollins World Reader and has edited anthologies on the Manifestes - Ismes, Surrealism and twentieth-century French literature. Her translations include Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and René Char.
Condition | Used - Very Good |
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Language | United Kingdom |
Artist / Illustrator | Maar Dora |
Illustrated | Yes |
Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 2000 |
Year | 2000 |
Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Caws Mary Ann |
Editor | Thames & Hudson |
First edition | Yes |
Signed edition | No |
Signed binding | No |
Armorial binding | No |
Binding / Format | Hardcover |
Size | 29 x 22 cm |