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"Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally described creativity as an extraordinary individual's lone struggle for self-expression. Now, thirteen of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions in a highly original and revealing series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and artistic bonds, combining biography with evaluation of each partner's work in the context of their relationship." "Significant Others features such celebrated duos as Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The contributors explore the nature of artistic companionships, with their corresponding limitations and innovations; the tangled questions of identity; the roles of gender and sexuality; and the stereotypes imposed by society. Many of the essays are particularly concerned with the way women and men have been evaluated in relation to their partners in traditional biographies, art history and literary criticism. We are encouraged to think in new ways about inspirational interaction, and to reassess both women's and men's contributions to culture and the importance of their art." "These creative unions offer arresting instances of sexual and artistic collision, collusion and mutual stimulation. Significant Others presents thirteen dramas, with imaginative and courageous players who chose fruitful, colorful and often difficult solutions to the dilemmas of social constraint and competing genius."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved… (más)
Lots of people are famous, but much fewer people are famous and have famous partners. How do two famous people get together? How does the relationship affect their craft? This book examines some of the most important creative couples of the last 125 years or so. This book is an underappreciated gem. If people haven't read about it or heard about it, then they should. The fact that many movies have been made about these couples makes me wonder if screenwriters used this book as a referral.
The book is very diverse. It includes straight, gay male, and lesbian couplings. It includes writers, painters, and sculptors. It speaks of cross-generational couples and interracial couples. Most importantly, it doesn't imply that all these couples lasted forever. Sometimes, it emphasizes divorce and break-ups in its analyses. The book has few male authors; so in terms of subject and writers, it's in many ways a women's studies text.
The book is thick but that is because of the huge endnotes and reprint permissions. The work is rigorous, but it doesn't take long to read individual chapters. I just can't believe I never heard of this text before. It's simply precious, and almost priceless. ( )
"Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally described creativity as an extraordinary individual's lone struggle for self-expression. Now, thirteen of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions in a highly original and revealing series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and artistic bonds, combining biography with evaluation of each partner's work in the context of their relationship." "Significant Others features such celebrated duos as Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Anais Nin and Henry Miller, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. The contributors explore the nature of artistic companionships, with their corresponding limitations and innovations; the tangled questions of identity; the roles of gender and sexuality; and the stereotypes imposed by society. Many of the essays are particularly concerned with the way women and men have been evaluated in relation to their partners in traditional biographies, art history and literary criticism. We are encouraged to think in new ways about inspirational interaction, and to reassess both women's and men's contributions to culture and the importance of their art." "These creative unions offer arresting instances of sexual and artistic collision, collusion and mutual stimulation. Significant Others presents thirteen dramas, with imaginative and courageous players who chose fruitful, colorful and often difficult solutions to the dilemmas of social constraint and competing genius."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
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The book is very diverse. It includes straight, gay male, and lesbian couplings. It includes writers, painters, and sculptors. It speaks of cross-generational couples and interracial couples. Most importantly, it doesn't imply that all these couples lasted forever. Sometimes, it emphasizes divorce and break-ups in its analyses. The book has few male authors; so in terms of subject and writers, it's in many ways a women's studies text.
The book is thick but that is because of the huge endnotes and reprint permissions. The work is rigorous, but it doesn't take long to read individual chapters. I just can't believe I never heard of this text before. It's simply precious, and almost priceless. (