Between lives: an artist and her world

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Headlong -- Before and always -- Flight -- An artist remembers -- Cactus and stars -- Paris with a patina -- In "the garden of France" -- Provence and a house -- Plummeted bird -- A time suspended -- Unfinished picture -- Veils and verities.;Fourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. In this book, she expanded those reminiscences into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collaborator, and muse to some of its most inspired minds and personalities : a diverse assemblage that ranges from the fathers of dada and surrealism to Virgil Thompson, George Balanchine, Alberto Giacometti, Dylan Thomas, Truman Capote, Joan Miro, James Merrill, and many more. At its center is the relationship, tenderly rendered, between the author and her famed husband, the enigmatic surrealist Max Ernst. Headlong -- Before and always -- Flight -- An artist remembers -- Cactus and stars -- Paris with a patina -- In "the garden of France" -- Provence and a house -- Plummeted bird -- A time suspended -- Unfinished picture -- Veils and verities.