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Modern couples : art, intimacy and the avant-garde

Title: Modern couples : art, intimacy and the avant-garde / edited by Jane Alison and Coralie Malissard ; translation: Edward Fortes, Cynthia Hall, Louise Rogers LaLaurie, Alison Munro, and Nikki Racklin.
Publication: London : Barbican : Prestel Publishing Ltd, 2018.

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351 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 30 cm

Summary

Featuring the biggest names in Modern Art, Modern Couples explores creative relationships, across painting, sculpture, photography, design and literature. Meet the artist couples that forged new ways of making art and of living and loving. The exhibition illuminates these creative and personal relationships, from the obsessional and fleeting to the life-long. Including Dora Maar & Pablo Picasso; Salvador Dalí & Federico García Lorca; Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin; Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera; Emilie Flöge & Gustav Klimt - plus many more.--

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Art, intimacy and the avant-garde

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Note

Published by Prestel Publishing Ltd in association with the Barbican Art Gallery.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Barbican Art Gallery, London, 10 October 2018 - 27 January 2019. Previously at Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, 26 April - 20 August 2018.
Artist couples: Aino and Alvar Aalto, Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, Benedetta and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Lilya Brik, Osip Brik and Vladimir Mayakovsky, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Leonora Carrington and Max Ernst, Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin, Natalie Clifford Barney and Romaine Brooks, Nancy Cunard and Henry Crowder, Sonia Delaunay and Robert Delaunay, Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener, Emilie Flöge and Gustav Klimt, Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí, Natalia Goncharova and Mikhail Larionov, Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson, Winifred Roberts and Ben Nicholson, Hannah Höch and Til Brugman, Hannah Höch and Raoul Hausmann, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Dora Maar and Pablo Picasso, Alma Mahler and Gustav Mahler, Alma Mahler and Oskar Kokoschka, Maria Martins and Marcel Duchamp, Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston, Lee Miller and Man Ray, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, Tina Modotti and Edward Weston, Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy, Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French) and Margaret French, George Platt Lynes, Monroe Wheeler and Glenway Wescott, Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe, Lavinia Schulz & Walter Holdt, Varvara Stepanova and Alexander Rodchenko, Toyen and Jindrich Styrsky, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp, Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej von Jawlensky, Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, Unica Zürn and Hans Bellmer.

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Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

3791358413
9783791358413

OCLC

on1073969416
1073969416
SCSB-9291526

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Princeton University Library