Roland Penrose, Lee Miller

Roland Penrose, Lee Miller
Author: Sir Roland Penrose
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2001
Genre: Art
ISBN:

This book offers an unprecedented insight into one of the most fascinating artistic relationships of the 20th century.

Surrealist Lee Miller

Surrealist Lee Miller
Author: Antony Penrose
Publisher: Farley's House and Gallery
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Photographers
ISBN: 9780953238934

Image based book on the Surrealist photography of Lee Miller. Essay of approx 7500 words by her son Antony Penrose included and extended captions supplied for 100 images.

Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain

Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain
Author: Eleanor Clayton
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781848222724

Lee Miller (1907-1977) moved to London in the late 1930s, just as a rich strand of Surrealist practice was burgeoning in Britain. Miller was central to its development and prolonged life after World War II, exhibiting alongside British Surrealists such as Eileen Agar and Henry Moore in often overlooked London exhibitions. This book is the first to present Lee Miller's photographs of, and collaborations with key British Surrealists alongside their artworks, to tell the story of this exciting cultural moment. Miller's photographs of noted continental Surrealists such as Max Ernst and E.L.T Mesens, taken while they were working and exhibiting in Britain, also feature alongside their works, documenting their enduring friendships with Miller and her husband, the artist Roland Penrose. Miller's interdisciplinary photographic practice acted as a conduit for the dispersal of Surrealist images out of the realm of fine art and into the worlds of fashion, commercial photography and journalism. A vital study for all students and enthusiasts of Surrealism and those enthralled by the enigmatic Lee Miller, this book reveals the social and cultural networks in which she was embedded, offering a holistic view of her work and the life of the Surrealist movement in Britain. Exhibition: The Hepworth, Wakefield, UK (22.06.-07.10.2018).

The Home of the Surrealists

The Home of the Surrealists
Author: Antony Penrose
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-03-28
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780711228320

Written by Anthony Penrose, son of American photographer and feminist icon Lee Miller and British artist Roland Penrose, this work provides a personal insight into their life together at Farley Farm, Sussex where they played host to some of the greatest 20th-century artists.

The Lives of Lee Miller

The Lives of Lee Miller
Author: Antony Penrose
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0500776768

A highly readable biography of uniquely talented artist Lee Miller, now in compact paperback. Collected in this compelling volume are the many lives of Lee Miller, intimately recorded by her son, Antony Penrose, whose years of work on her photographic archives have unearthed a rich selection of her finest work, including portraits of her friends Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Max Ernst, Paul Eluard, and Joan Miró. Starting in 1927 in New York, this volume chronicles Lee Miller as she is discovered as a model by Condé Nast, hits the cover of Vogue, and is immortalized by Edward Steichen, George Hoyningen-Huene, Horst P. Horst, and other acclaimed photographers. From there, readers follow Miller to Paris where she, along with Man Ray, invented the solarization technique of photography, and where she developed into a brilliant Surrealist photographer. Finally, this account covers the later chapters of her life, when she became a war correspondent during World WarII, traveling with the Allied armies to cover the siege of Saint-Malo and the liberation of Paris, which lead to her photographs of the Dachau concentration camp that shocked the world. A highly readable biography of a uniquely talented artist, The Lives of Lee Miller is now published in compact paperback.

Lee Miller's Surrealist Eye

Lee Miller's Surrealist Eye
Author: Lynn Hilditch
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2022-11-14
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1527589730

American-born artist Lee Miller (1907-1977) has been increasingly championed by scholars and curators for her Surrealism-inspired photographs. Her captivating images of Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s, her dreamlike portraits of desert landscapes and sexually suggestive architecture taken in Egypt in the mid-1930s, and her witty, yet often disturbing, photographs of the Second World War and its aftermath have been widely discussed. However, while popular interest in Miller’s colourful life and photographic work has been rapidly growing during the past forty years, her true worth as a prominent Surrealist artist has been somewhat overlooked. This new collection of essays addresses this issue, revalidating Lee Miller’s Surrealist position, not simply as a muse, friend, and collaborator with the Surrealists, but as one of the twentieth century’s most important and influential female Surrealist artists.

The Home of the Surrealists

The Home of the Surrealists
Author: Antony Penrose
Publisher: Farley's House and Gallery
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Artist families
ISBN: 9780953238910

This text provides an insight into Penrose and Miller's life together at Farley Farm, Sussex, where they played host to some of the greatest 20th century artists and assembled one of the most fascinating collections of modern art in Britain.