Between Lives: An Artist and Her World

Between Lives: An Artist and Her WorldFourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collaborator, and muse to some of its most inspired minds and personalities: a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of dada and surrealism to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Mir, James Merrill,

featuring the films Monterey Pop

now hallmarks of the surrealist enterprise

The Enormous Room (1922)

as creative muse and as gateways into deeper explorations of consciousness

bereavement

angry and adrift

But it is a chance encounter with a man named Mitsutsuka that awakens something new in her

it is a violent and outrageous black comedy about the darkest side of human nature

the stories here showcase Sturgeon's masterful knack for clever

their debut album ‘Parcels’ and working with Daft Punk on the acclaimed track “Over-night”

This is not only an immense treasure trove of biographical and art-historical information

The book became an instant bestseller on its publication in 1998 and won the Forward Prize for Poetry in the same year