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A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War
In this latest episode of Biographers in Conversation, Anna Thomasson chats with Dr Gabriella Kelly-Davies about A Vast Horizon: Artists and Lovers, Freedom and War.
Here’s what you’ll discover in this episode:
Why Anna Thomasson chose a collective biography to reveal the chemistry and interconnected lives of nine surrealists.
How a 1937 summer at the Hôtel Vaste Horizon became the book’s narrative and symbolic starting point.
What photographs reveal about historical lives and why their apparent intimacy can never yield the whole truth.
How letters, diaries, poems and artworks became…
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