
- 321 pages
- English
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About this book
Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full lifeâremarkable for its vividness and diversity of experienceâand she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century.
In
Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook from an extraordinary array of writings, ranging from diary entries to her many contributions to the art journal
L'OEIL, which she cofounded in 1955. The result is a multifaceted self-portrait of a life informed and surrounded by the arts.
Through the stories of her encounters with some of the twentieth century's great artists and composersâincluding Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copeland, Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeldâwe come to understand the sheer richness of Bernier's experiences, interactions, and memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wiseâa richly rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Disgrace
- Some Musicians I Have Known
- Stokowski
- Aaron Copland
- Leonard Bernstein
- Early Mexican Moments
- Some Animals I Have Known
- Up, Up, and Away
- Under the Volcano (pace Malcolm Lowry)
- Malcolm Lowry
- Paul and Jane Bowles
- The Good Neighbors
- More Mexican Moments
- VogueâFirst Job
- Chick Austin
- Virgil, Aaron, and Nadia Boulanger
- Paris Again
- Now Itâs London
- In Search of Proust
- Visits to Matisse
- René Clair and Vittorio De Sica
- On My Own for Vogue: First Visit to Picasso
- Picasso and Antibes
- LâĆIL Begins with a Gift from Picasso
- Berthe Morisotâs Daughter
- Goncharova, Larionov, and Pevsner
- Wifredo Lam
- Venetian AdventuresâVenice Observed
- Georges BraqueâLord of the Birds
- Remembering Fernand Léger
- Alberto Giacometti
- My Friend MirĂł
- Henry Moore
- Max Ernst
- Chanel Comeback
- Visiting Karl Lagerfeld
- Once Upon a Time: Life at Mouton Rothschild
- Louise Bourgeois, a Loving Memory
- Sitting for David Hockney
- Jerome Robbins
- The Editor as Talker
- Lecturing Notes
- Still Talking
- Philip Johnson and Our Wedding
- Some of Johnâs Musical Friends
- About John
- To the Met with Alex Katz
- Afterwords
- Foreword to John Russellâs Paris
- Janet Flanner (Genet)
- Richard Avedon
- Irving Penn
- Acknowledgments
- Also by
- Copyright Page