![]() ![]() A lavishly illustrated story of art and beauty, sex and power, Modernism and Surrealism, Lee Miller illuminates an astonishing woman’s journey from art object to artist. Burke captures all the verve and energy of Miller’s life: from her early childhood trauma to her stint as a Vogue model and art-world ingénue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. Carolyn Burke, a biographer and art critic, here reveals how the muse who inspired Man Ray, Cocteau, and Picasso could be the same person who unflinchingly photographed the horrors of Buchenwald and Dachau. NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTĪ model and photographer, muse, reporter, adventurer and a domestic goddess, She was also America's first female war correspondent. On April 23, 1907, Theodore Miller entered the birth of his daughter, Elizabeth, in his diary, noting the time of day (4:15 p.m.), the place (the Miller home, 40. ISBN-10: 0375401474 / ISBN-13: 9780375401473 In 1997, Santa Cruz resident Carolyn Burke saw Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy- her intricately researched biography of the once internationally. (near fine - surface abrasion to back cover of dw, else new ). Home 1 › Lee Miller: A Life By Carolyn Burke 2Ĩvo. ![]() I Love Toronto: Books, Maps, Prints & Art. ![]()
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