Significant Others

Biographies of artists and writers have traditionally presented an individual’s lone struggle for self-expression. In this book, critics and historians challenge these assumptions in a series of essays that focus on artist and writer couples who have shared sexual and artistic bonds. Featuring duos such as Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, this book combines biography with evaluation of each partner’s work in the context of the relationship.

Biografiile artistilor si scriitorilor au prezentat in mod traditional lupta individuala a individului pentru auto-exprimare. In aceasta carte, criticii si istoricii contesta aceste ipoteze intr-o serie de eseuri care se concentreaza pe cuplurile de artisti si scriitori care au impartasit legaturi sexuale si artistice.