The Art of the Affair: An Illustrated History of Love, Sex, and Artistic Influence

by Forsyth Harmon and Catherine Lacey

Book Overview

A vibrantly illustrated chain of entanglements (romantic and otherwise) between some of our best-loved writers and artists of the twentieth century--fascinating, scandalous, and surprising.

Poet Robert Lowell died of a heart attack, clutching a portrait of his lover, Caroline Blackwood, painted by her ex-husband, Lucian Freud. Lowell was on his way to see his own ex-wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, who was a longtime friend of Mary McCarthy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632866552
• ISBN13: 9781632866554
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.2" x 7.3"