Lee Miller: A Life - Brossura

Burke, Carolyn

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ISBN 10: 0226080676 ISBN 13: 9780226080673

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Lee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller’s life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingénue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. A lavishly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, Lee Miller illuminates an astonishing woman’s journey from art object to artist.

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L'autore:

Carolyn Burke has taught at Princeton and the University of California at Santa Cruz, among other universities in France, the U.S., and Australia. She is the author of Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0226080676
• ISBN 13: 9780226080673
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 426