Lee Miller A Life

Name: Lee Miller A Life
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ISBN: 9780226080673

ISBN-10: 0226080676

ISBN-13: 9780226080673

Edition: 2007

Authors: Carolyn Burke

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Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller's life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingenue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. A…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/23/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 446
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Contents


Introduction



Elizabeth



A Poughkeepsie Girlhood (1907-15)



Never Jam Today (1915-25)



Circulating Around (1925-26)



Being in Vogue (1926-29)



Miss Lee Miller



Montparnasse with Man Ray (1929-30)



La Femme Surrealiste (1930-32)



The Lee Miller Studio in Manhattan (1932-34)



Madame Eloui Bey



Egypt (1934-37)



Surrealist Encampments (Summer 1937)



The Egyptian Complex (1937-39)



Lee Miller, War Correspondent



London in the Blitz (1939-44)



Covering the War in France (1944-45)



Covering the War in Germany (1945)



Postwar (1945-46)



Lady Penrose



Patching Things Up (1946-50)



A Double Life (1950-61)



A Second Fame (1961-71)



Retrospectives (1971-77)


Afterword


Appendix: A Lee Miller Dinner for Eight


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index