Artists in Love: From Picasso & Gilot to Christo & Jeanne-Claude, A Century of Creative and Romantic Partnerships

ISBN: 0789325942

Author: Kavass, Veronica

Condition: New

IPPY 2012 Gold Award in the Fine Arts category (Independent Publisher Book Awards)ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award FinalistFor centuries, great artists have been drawn together in friendship and in love. In Artists in Love, curator and writer Veronica Kavass delves into the passionate and creative underpinnings of the art world's most provocative romances. From Picasso and Francoise Gilot to Lee Miler and Man Ray to Saul Steinberg and Hedda Sterne, Kavass' graceful and daring text provides a generous glimpse into the inspiring and sometimes tempestuous relationships between celebrated artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.From poetic beginnings to shocking endings (and vice-versa), the various dimensions of the artist couple archetypes are ceaselessly explored. Some are enduring and collaborative, yielding astonishing parallel bodies of work, as with Robert and Sonia Delaunay and Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Others are adoring and explosive, such as Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera and Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Essays revealing what compelled these dynamic artists to partner, how their pairing influenced their work, and why their love may have faltered, are accompanied by lush illustrations of their art and documentary photographs of the couple.The first visual book to explore this subject in such epic scope, Artists in Love is a revelatory and riveting journey into the hearts and minds of artists in love.Artists featured include:Wassily Kandinsky & Gabriele MnterRobert & Sonia DelaunayAlfred Stieglitz & Georgia OKeeffeJean Arp & Sophie Taeuber-ArpAnni & Josef AlbersFrida Kahlo & Diego RiveraLee Miller & Man RayJacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn KnightBarbara Hepworth & Ben NicholsonElaine & Willem de KooningPablo Picasso & Franoise GilotJackson Pollock & Lee KrasnerDorothea Tanning & Max ErnstNancy Spero & Leon GolubJasper Johns & Robert RauschenbergRobert Motherwell & Helen FrankenthalerChristo & Jeanne-ClaudeBernd & Hilla BecherEva Hesse & Tom DoyleCharles and Ray EamesKay Sage and Yves TanguySaul Steinberg and Hedda SterneRobert Smithson & Nancy HoltNiki de Saint Phalle & Jean TinguelyMarina Abramovi & UlayClaes Oldenburg & Coosje van BruggenBruce Nauman & Susan RothenbergDavid McDermott and Peter McGough