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Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist

Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist

King, James

Hardcover

Art Criticism & TheoryArtistsIndividual Artists

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ISBN10: 1474414508
ISBN13: 9781474414500
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: May 4 2016
Pages: 352
Weight: 2.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

The first biography of Roland Penrose, one of the great English-born practitioners of modernism in the twentieth century
As an artist, an impresario, a biographer and a collector, Roland Penrose (1900-1984) is a key figure in the study of art in England from 1920 to 1984. In the first biography of Penrose, acclaimed biographer James King explores the intricacies of Penrose's life and work tracing the profound effects of his upbringing in a Quaker household on his values, the early influence of Roger Fry, his friendships with Max Ernst, André Breton and other surrealists, especially Paul Éluard, his organization of the landmark International Surrealist Exhibition in the summer of 1936, his conflicted relationship with Pablo Picasso, and his tireless promotion of surrealism as well as the production of his own surrealist art. With a deftness of touch, King traces Penrose's complex professional and personal lives, including his pacifism, his work as a biographer - including his outstanding life of Picasso as well as those of Miró, Man Ray, and Tapiès - and as an art historian, as well as his unconventionality, especially in his two marriages - including that to Lee Miller -and his numerous love affairs.

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