Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

by Dorothea Tanning

Book Overview

Fourteen years ago, the artist 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, and muse to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of dada and surrealism to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Mir?, James Merrill,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393343987
• ISBN13: 9780393343984
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" 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 -