The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
de Prose, Francine
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060196726
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196721
- Librería
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2002. xii, 416 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "In a brilliant, wry, and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process. There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined with that of a particular artist. What are we to make of the relationship between the child Alice Liddell, who inspired Alice in Wonderland, and the Oxford don who became Lewis Carroll? Or the so-called serial muse, Lou Andreas-Salome;, who captivated Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud -- as impressive a list as any muse can boast? Salvador Dali was the only artist to sign his art with his muse's name, and Gala Dali certainly knew how to market her artist and his work while simultaneously burnishing her own image and celebrity. Lou, Gala, and Yoko Ono all defy the feminist stereotype of the muse as a passive beauty put on a pedestal and oppressed by a male artist. However, it's rare to find an artist and muse who are genuine partners, true collaborators, such as ballerina Suzanne Farrell and choreographer George Balanchine. What do the nine muses chosen by Francine Prose have in common? They were all beautiful, or sexy, or gifted with some more unconventional appeal. All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros. For these artists, the love of -- or for -- their muses provided an essential element required for the melding of talent and technique necessary to create art. / Francine Prose is the critically acclaimed author of nineteen novels, including the National Book Award Finalist Blue Angel and My New American Life. She has written three other novels for young adults: After, winner of the California Young Reader Medal, an IRA/CBC Young Adults' Choice, and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; Bullyville, a PW Best Book and Book Sense Children's Pick; and her most recent, Touch. She is also the author of two picture books, Leopold, the Liar of Leipzig and Rhino, Rhino, Sweet Potato. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, Francine Prose was Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. She lives in New York City." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 124902
- Título
- The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
- Autor
- Prose, Francine
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Edición
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0060196726
- ISBN 13
- 9780060196721
- Editorial
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2002
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Palabras clave
- Collectible
- Catálogos del vendedor
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Genre & Subject / Portraiture; Genre & Subject / Erotic; Aesthetics;
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