The Art of Love: The Romantic and Explosive Stories Behind Art's Greatest Couples

Kate Bryan & Asli Yazan

Hardcover | 19.94 x 2.67 x 25.27 cm | 184 pp

White Lion Publishing | 2019 | 9780711240315

The Art of Love tells the stories of the most fascinating couples of the art world, exploring the passionate, challenging and loving relationships behind some the world's greatest works of art. Kate Bryan (broadcaster, writer and curator) delves into the complex world of artistic relationships, exploring the nuanced ways in which art and love can share the same space. When two married artists collaborate, do they ever get a moment off? What happens when love fades and two artists, known by one moniker, part? When a couple work independently, how do they manage jealousy and competition? In this book we meet love in all its glorious and complicated forms, including:

• unlikely couples with conflicting philosophies (Yayoi Kusama & Joseph Cornell); 
• women artists unjustly overshadowed (Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock);
• unconventional marriages that prove love has many guises (Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera);
• couples who suffered from intense, public burnout (Marina Abramovic & Ulay); 
• soul mates who found safety in each other (Ethel Mars & Maud Hunt Squire);
• bitter rivalries that weren't built to last (Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg); 
• and inseparable collaborators (Gilbert & George).

Through evocative stories and beautiful illustrations, Kate tells of the formation, and sometimes breakdown, of each romance documenting their highs and lows and revealing just how powerful love can be in the creative process. 
Whether long-lasting, peaceful collaborations, or short-lived tumultuous affairs, The Art of Love, opens the door on some of the greatest love stories of the twentieth century. 

The relationships:
Francoise Gilot & Pablo Picasso; Frida Kahlo & Diego Rivera; Carl Andre & Ana Mendieta; Christo & Jeanne-Claude; Robert Delaunay & Sonia Delaunay; Lee Krasner & Jackson Pollock; Barbara Hepworth & Ben Nicholson; Georgia O'Keeffe & Alfred Stieglitz; Lee Miller & Man Ray; Max Ernst & Dorothea Tanning; Jasper Johns & Robert Rauschenberg; Elaine de Kooning & William de Kooning; Maria Martins & Marcel Duchamp; Hans Arp & Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Raoul Hausmann & Hannah Hoch; Josef Albers & Anni Albers; Gwendolyn Knight & Jacob Lawrence; Kay Sage & Yves Tanguy; Nancy Holt & Robert Smithson; Marina Abramovic & Ulay; Gilbert & George; Joseph Cornell & Yayoi Kusama; Carroll Dunham & Laurie Simmons; Camille Claudel & Auguste Rodin; Maud Hunt Squire & Ethel Mars; Frances Loring & Florence Wyle; Alexander Rodchenko & Varvare Stepanova; Niki de Saint Phalle & Jean Tinguely; Leon Golub & Nancy Spero; Lili Elbe & Gerde Wegener; Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher; Emilia Kabakov & Ilya Kabakov; Tim Noble & Sue Webster; Idris Khan & Annie Morris.