The Road Is Wider Than Long: An Image Diary from the Balkans July-August 1938; Series of Surrealist Poetry; London Gallery Editions

by Roland Penrose

During July and August 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller journeyed through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter and a writer; Miller was a studio assistant to Man Ray, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892367164
• ISBN13: 9780892367160
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

A unique Surrealist travel memoir

Here's an evocative artist's handmade book by an English champion of the Surrealists, and a notable Surrealist himself. In this memoir of a journey through the Balkans in late 1938, created for his wife, the author combines text using varied typefaces, black & white photographs, and his own drawings. In just a few poetic lines, he conveys a wealth of emotions & images in a way that lengthy paragraphs could never hope to capture -- the feeling is that of a sharply remembered dream, steeped in centuries of myth. Well worth reading & mulling over, and not just for devotees of the Surrealists. Recommended!