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Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
by Dorothea Tanning
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2001-08)
ISBN: 0393050408
EAN: 9780393050400
Dewy Decimal #: 709.2
Hardcover: 288 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 29009
Condition: Collectable Like New
Comments: THE HARDBACK BOOK! NORTON, 2001. THE UNABRIDGED 1ST EDITION. WITH TERRIFIC PHOTOGRAPHS! HARDCOVER W/GILT LETTERING, DUST JACKET AND PAGES ARE FINE, LOOKS NEW! Rapid shipping w/FREE tracking. GREAT PACKAGING . Air Mail.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
In 1987 the arist Dorothea Tanning published "Birthday", a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collaborator, muse and mentor to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of surrealism and Dada to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Jean Miro and many more. At its centre is the relationship between Tanning and her husband, the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst.
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Customer Reviews
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inspiring
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-08-25
0 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
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 -
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It Should Have Been So Much More
Rating  (3)
Date: 2003-05-04
8 out of 10 customers found this reveiw helpful
Indifferent writing, a surprising lack of insight into the incredible milieu in which she moved, and gratuitously catty remarks towards the great Leonora Carrington (an earlier Ernst protege who Tanning apparently feels threatened by 50 years after the fact) mar what should have been a very interesting memoir of a remarkable life. Tanning, Max Ernst's companion of 30 years and a compelling painter in her own right, was at the heart of one of the great artistic movements of the 20th Century, but this work reads like a flat travel log of places gone to and roll call of persons met. The paucity of detail,personal anectdotes, and characterization of any of the luminaries mentioned mark Tanning's bio as a great disappointment.
--A two star book with one star added because any information on this artistic epoch provided by an active participant has to be considered an important contribution.
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