A Vast Horizon Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War, US Edition | 8.22 MB
Title: A Vast Horizon Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War, US Edition
Author: Anna Thomasson
Language: English | 324 Pages | ISBN: 9781761779312
Description:
A story of friendship, love, and the pursuit of art-including Pablo Picasso, Lee Miller, Paul Éluard, and Man Ray-set against the precarious backdrop of the late 1930s, World War II, and its aftermath.
Late summer 1937. Europe is inching toward war. In the South of France a group of friends picnic in a secluded clearing. The women have peeled down their dresses to their waists. Shoes have been cast aside. A couple kiss playfully while the others look on, laughing. The moment is captured in a now-iconic image by photographer Lee Miller.
Some of the friends-the dancer Ady Fidelin, the poet Paul Éluard and his wife Nusch, the Surrealists Man Ray and Roland Penrose-are well-known, others less so. They are spending the summer at the Hôtel Vaste Horizon in Mougins with fellow artists Dora Maar, Eileen Agar, and Pablo Picasso.
In this evocative setting, biographer Anna Thomasson traces the group's individual and...
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