Surrealist Lee Miller
Surrealist before she knew of the movement Lee Miller was âcaustically brilliant, yet totally loyal, unpretentious, human and intolerant of sham. She was a consummate artist and a consummate clown; at once an upstate New York hick and cosmopolitan grande dame; a cold, soignĂ©e fashion model and a hoyden⊠She was a mechanical âtinkerâ, in the sense that her friend [the artist] Alexander Calder once called himself âjust a tinkerâ. She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century renaissance womanâ described David E. Scherman, LIFE photographer and her very close friend.
Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the 20th century, her Surrealist eye informed everything she did. Her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner.
Paperback, 158 pages
Surrealist before she knew of the movement Lee Miller was âcaustically brilliant, yet totally loyal, unpretentious, human and intolerant of sham. She was a consummate artist and a consummate clown; at once an upstate New York hick and cosmopolitan grande dame; a cold, soignĂ©e fashion model and a hoyden⊠She was a mechanical âtinkerâ, in the sense that her friend [the artist] Alexander Calder once called himself âjust a tinkerâ. She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century renaissance womanâ described David E. Scherman, LIFE photographer and her very close friend.
Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the 20th century, her Surrealist eye informed everything she did. Her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner.
Paperback, 158 pages
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Surrealist before she knew of the movement Lee Miller was âcaustically brilliant, yet totally loyal, unpretentious, human and intolerant of sham. She was a consummate artist and a consummate clown; at once an upstate New York hick and cosmopolitan grande dame; a cold, soignĂ©e fashion model and a hoyden⊠She was a mechanical âtinkerâ, in the sense that her friend [the artist] Alexander Calder once called himself âjust a tinkerâ. She was the nearest thing I knew to a mid-20th century renaissance womanâ described David E. Scherman, LIFE photographer and her very close friend.
Lee Miller was one of the most original photographic artists of the 20th century, her Surrealist eye informed everything she did. Her work presents the world in a way that encourages us to view it in a different manner.
Paperback, 158 pages
