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Les vies de Dora Maar (Beaux Livres)

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New York, 1927 : jeune femme à la beauté classique, Lee Miller est découverte par Condé Nast, fait la couverture de Vogue et se voit immortalisée par les plus grands photographes, dont Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene et Horst.

Paris, 1929 : amie d'Eluard et de Picasso, élève et compagne de Man Ray, elle invente avec lui la technique photographique de la solarisation, devient une brillante photographe surréaliste et joue le rôle de la statue dans Le Sang d'un poète de Jean Cocteau.

Europe, 1944-1945 : correspondante de guerre pour le magazine Vogue, elle est la seule femme à suivre l'avancée des armées alliées, des plages de Normandie aux camps de la mort et au " nid d'aigle " d'Adolf Hitler en Bavière. Ses photographies de Dachau bouleversent le monde entier.

Ce ne sont là que trois des nombreuses vies de Lee Miller, relatées ici par son fils Antony Penrose, né de son union avec le peintre surréaliste Roland Penrose. De cette héroïne stendhalienne aussi étonnamment belle qu'intrépide, de cette troublante voyageuse, le photographe David Sherman disait qu'elle " incarna au plus près la nouvelle femme du milieu du XXe siècle ".

Riche de 171 illustrations en duotone - une sélection de ses plus belles photographies et portraits signés par les plus grands photographes -, ce livre retrace le parcours éminemment romanesque de celle qui fut l'une des femmes les plus extraordinaires de son temps.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 12, 2000

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Mary Ann Caws

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Mary Ann Caws is an American author, translator, art historian and literary critic.
She is Distinguished Professor Emerita in Comparative Literature, English, and French at the Graduate School of the City University of New York, and on the film faculty. She is an expert on Surrealism and modern English and French literature, having written biographies of Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, and Henry James. She works on the interrelations of visual art and literary texts, has written biographies of Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dalí, and edited the diaries, letters, and source material of Joseph Cornell. She has also written on André Breton, Robert Desnos, René Char, Yves Bonnefoy, Robert Motherwell, and Edmond Jabès. She served as the senior editor for the HarperCollins World Reader, and edited anthologies including Manifesto: A Century of Isms, Surrealism, and the Yale Anthology of 20th-Century French Poetry. Among others, she has translated Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Tzara, Pierre Reverdy, André Breton, Paul Éluard, Robert Desnos, and René Char.
Among the positions she has held are President, Association for Study of Dada and Surrealism, 1971–75 and President, Modern Language Association of America, 1983, Academy of Literary Studies, 1984–85, and the American Comparative Literature Association, 1989-91.
She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, and a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities.
In October 2004, she published her autobiography, To the Boathouse: a Memoir (University Alabama Press), and in November 2008, a cookbook memoir: Provençal Cooking: Savoring the Simple Life in France (Pegasus Books).
She was married to Peter Caws and is the mother of Hilary Caws-Elwitt and of Matthew Caws, lead singer of the band Nada Surf. She is married to Dr. Boyce Bennett; they live in New York City.

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