Full name: Lee Miller: A Life

Author: Carolyn Burke Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, Non Fiction, Art, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780226080673 0226080676

Lee Miller's life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America's first female war correspondent. 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. 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 ingenue, from her harrowing years as a war correspondent to her unconventional marriages and passion for gourmet cooking. 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. Similar books: Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth Mapplethorpe by Patricia Morrisroe Clover Adams by Natalie Dykstra Balzac by Stefan Zweig Victor Hugo by Graham Robb Samuel Beckett by Anthony Cronin Aldous Huxley by Nicholas Murray Tony Hancock by John Fisher The Knox Brothers by Penelope Fitzgerald Dorothy Day by William Miller The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham by Selina Hastings Tom by Lyle Leverich The Lonely Hunter by Virginia Spencer Carr Gore Vidal by Fred Kaplan The Kindness of Strangers by Donald Spoto Edie by Jean Stein A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932 by John Richardson Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling Utopia Parkway by Deborah Solomon A Revolution in Color by Jane Kamensky