false <![CDATA[The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg 39939 8 In <I>The Lives of the Muses</I>, Francine Prose writes a spirited and enlightening exposé of nine women who fired the imaginations of some of the most inimitable artists and thinkers of the 19th and 20th centuries. With wicked wit, she shows how these women were both exemplars of their times and iconoclasts struggling to assert their own identity within the unconventional relationships they formed with these men. In doing so, she undertakes an examination of the concept of the muse in all its permutations--from the static nine Muses of classical Greek mythology, through Dante's oft-recycled Beatrice, to its ironized figuration in contemporary popular culture.<p> In addition to Alice Liddell, Prose looks at the following women: Hester Thrale, a long-suffering brewer's wife whose romantic friendship allowed the depressive Dr. Samuel Johnson to continue writing; the tormented Elizabeth Siddal, an opium-addicted artist who became Beatrice to Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Lou Andreas-Salome, who captivated and aroused a triumvirate of original thinkers: Friedrich Nietzsche, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Sigmund Freud; the "imperious" Gala Dali, who continued to sleep with her ex-husband, poet Paul Eluard, even as she transformed herself into a phenomenal marketing machine for surrealist Salvador Dali; Lee Miller, a model who mastered the techniques of Man Ray and others, and became a talented photographer; Suzanne Farrell, a ballerina who incarnated, animated, and was inspired to great heights of artistry by the compositions of choreographer George Balanchine; Charis Weston, one in a long line of the erotically restless Edward Weston's cast-off art wives and lovers; and the infamous Yoko Ono, who fought fiercely for recognition as an avant-garde artist as she sought to subserve John Lennon into the role of muse.<p> Prose draws on photographs, diaries, correspondence, memoirs, and original works of art that reveal the complexity of these artist-muse relationships, and that direct her readers to other books should their curiosity be piqued (as it undoubtedly will). Author Prose has a talent for writing provocative, invigorating prose that engages and excites the reader, inspiring them to undertake wider reading. <I>--Diana Kuprel, Amazon.ca</I> 529991 2002 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired total:227|5:44|4:101|3:61|2:16|1:5| 227 844 437 38 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 1 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 23 13:27:29 -0700 2007 Thu Nov 01 16:41:26 -0700 2007 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 27 14:52:14 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 02 15:06:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 3 0 false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Mon Jul 20 15:45:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 15:45:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 06 23:48:45 -0700 2007 Sat Jan 19 13:18:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 5 0 false Sun Jan 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:33:06 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 12:35:57 -0800 2009 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Nov 21 07:58:58 -0800 2008 Fri Nov 21 08:22:42 -0800 2008 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 3 0 true Thu Sep 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 13 10:20:30 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 10 10:37:49 -0700 2008 1
Each chapter tells a fascinating back-story of fine art, philoso...more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Jul 06 06:32:26 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 06:39:28 -0700 2007 more...]]> 542666 0060196726 9780060196721 11 1 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175649832m/542666.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/542666.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 5 0 false Fri Sep 07 15:35:03 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 07:34:08 -0700 2007 the hardcover jacket for this book is a million times better and more appropriate, and if I achieve "librarian" status, I will in fact be uploading it. Fixed it. This is the hardcover jacket.

Francine Prose is perhaps #1 on my list of writers discovered in recent year...more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 0 0 false Sat Apr 19 17:49:34 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 10:51:51 -0700 2008 ...more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:39:43 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 09:41:28 -0700 2009 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 5 0 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Feb 17 20:31:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 20:31:41 -0800 2009 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 5 0 false Tue Feb 10 11:06:20 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:06:53 -0800 2009 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 3 0 false Tue Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 13:59:43 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 20 13:59:43 -0700 2008
I haven't read much ab...more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Sat Sep 19 11:50:03 -0700 2009 Mon Sep 28 21:08:45 -0700 2009 get all the girls,
I get all the girls.
y'know?

like i get them.
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P.S. I rarely buy books in hardcover ...more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 07:56:59 -0700 2007 Sun Jul 15 08:01:37 -0700 2007 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 4 0 false Thu Jul 17 20:15:06 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 17 21:47:26 -0700 2008 more...]]> 39939 0060555254 9780060555252 215 37 The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired 3.72 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169340291m/39939.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39939.The_Lives_of_the_Muses_Nine_Women_the_Artists_They_Inspired 3 0 false Thu May 03 04:36:05 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 04:38:17 -0700 2007
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