Significant others : creativity & intimate partnership / Edited by Whitney Chadwick & Isabelle De Courtivron

Index included

Myths of creation : Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin / Anne Higonnet -- Living simultaneously : Sonia & Robert Delaunay / Whitney Chadwick -- Of first wives and solitary heroes : Clara & André Malraux / Isabelle de Courtivron -- The "left-handed marriage" : Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant / Lisa Tickner -- Tinder-and-flint" : Virginia Woolf & Vita Sackville-West / Louise DeSalvo -- The bird superior meets the bride of the wind : Leonora Carrington & Max Ernst / Susan Rubin Suleiman -- Beauty to his beast : Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera / Hayden Herrera -- Separate studios : Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy / Judith D. Suther -- The literate passion of Anaïs Nin & Henry Miller / Noël Riley Fitch -- Non-negotiable bonds : Lillian Hellman & Dashiell Hammett / Bernard Benstock -- The art of code : Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg / Jonathan Katz -- Significantly other : Simone & André Schwarz-Bart / Ronnie Scharfman -- Fictions : Krasner's presence, Pollock's absence / Anne M. Wagner.

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally described creativity as an extraordinary individual's lone struggle for self-expression. Now, thirteen of today's leading critics and historians challenge and redefine conventional assumptions in a highly original and revealing series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared both sexual and artistic bonds, combining biography with evaluation of each partner's work in the context of their relationship.

English