The life and times of one of our most enchanting artists; a twentieth-century fairy tale; lovingly remembered and luminously told.Fourteen 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 Miroacute;; James Merrill; and many more. At its center is the relationship; tenderly rendered; between Tanning and her famed husband; the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst.Whether recalling the poignant presence of her friend Joseph Cornell or simply marveling at the facades along a Venice canal; "their filmy reflections fluttering in the dirty canal like fragile altar cloths hung out to dry;" Tannings writing is beguiling; wry; and shot through with the same eye for pregnant detail and immanent magic that marks her art.
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