The Lives of the Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Muses write by Francine Prose. This book was released on 2009-03-17. The Lives of the Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. All loved, and were loved by, their artists, and inspired them with an intensity of emotion akin to Eros. In a brilliant, wry, and provocative book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired write by Francine Prose. This book was released on 2013. The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Lives of the Muses
The Lives of the Muses - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Lives of the Muses write by Francine Prose. This book was released on 2004-09. The Lives of the Muses available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In her fascinating and provocative new book, National Book Award finalist Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between artist and muse. The Lives of the Muses is a collection of exquisitely written biographical essays on nine remarkable women and the artists they inspired. Among the nine muses there are many variations on the theme: from the young Alice Liddell, who inspired Oxford don Charles Dodgson to write Alice in Wonderland, to celebrities in their own right such as Gala Dali and Yoko Ono, who defy the stereotype of the muse as a passive beauty put on a pedestal and oppressed by a male artist. The muses are: Hester Thrale (Samuel Johnson); Alice Liddell (Lewis Carroll); Elizabeth Siddal (Dante Gabriel Rossetti); Lou Andreas-Salome (Nietzsche, Rilke and Freud); Gala Dali (Salvador Dali); Lee Miller (Man Ray); Charis Weston (Edward Weston); Suzanne Farrell (George Balanchine); and Yoko Ono (John Lennon).
Mentors, Muses & Monsters
Mentors, Muses & Monsters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mentors, Muses & Monsters write by Elizabeth Benedict. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Mentors, Muses & Monsters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Thirty writers look back at the the people, events, and books that launched their literary lives.
Monet and His Muse
Monet and His Muse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Monet and His Muse write by Mary Mathews Gedo. This book was released on 2010-09-30. Monet and His Muse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What sets this study apart from the vast literature on Monet is Gedo's focused, jargon-free, accessible, psychoanalytic assessment of Monet and his relationship with his first wife and mistress, Camille Doncieux, and the impact of this complex relationship on the artist's work. Using this psychobiographical approach in conducting a careful reading of primary source material and Monet's paintings, Gedo (independent scholar) does much to debunk a good deal of the mythology surrounding the artist's life at this period. She offers fresh insights into the content of many of Monet's major paintings, particularly his figurative works that feature Camille as a model or subject. So, for example, Gedo proposes that Monet's Camille (or The Woman in the Green Dress) from 1866, via its composition, "functioned as a metaphor for the uncertainty characterizing the relationship between lovers," in addition to exposing publicly Camille as Monet's mistress. As is the danger when applying psychoanalysis to the study of art history, some of Gedo's assertions and interpretations approach the level of implausibility; however, these flights of psychoanalytic fancy are few and far between. The writing is engaging, endnotes are extensive but not oppressive, and the book is sufficiently illustrated with many images in color. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers. General Readers; Lower-division Undergraduates; Upper-division Undergraduates; Graduate Students; Researchers/Faculty; Professionals/Practitioners. Reviewed by D. E. Gliem.
