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Bernier, Rosamond.

Some of my lives : a scrapbook memoir / Rosamond Bernier.

1st ed.

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

viii, 292 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.

Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life--remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience--and 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 composers--including Pablo Picasso, Leonard Bernstein, Max Ernst, Aaron Copland, Malcolm Lowry, and Karl Lagerfeld--we come to understand the sheer richness of Bernier's experiences, interactions, and memories. The result is pithy, hilarious, and wise--a richly rewarding chronicle of many lives fully lived.--From publisher description.

Bernier, Rosamond.

Art critics -- United States -- Biography.

Arts, Modern -- 20th century.

Includes bibliographical references.

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 -- Vogue--first job -- Chick Austin -- Virgil, Aaron, and Nadia Boulanger -- Paris again -- Now it's 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 -- L'ŒIL begins with a gift from Picasso -- Berthe Morisot's daughter -- Goncharova, Larionov, and Pevsner -- Wifredo Lam -- Venetian adventures : Venice observed -- Georges Braque : lord of the birds -- Remembering Fernand Léger -- Alberto Giacometti -- My friend Miro -- 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 John's musical friends -- About John -- To the Met with Alex Katz -- Afterwords. Foreword to John Russell's Paris ; Janet Flanner (Genet) ; Richard Avedon ; Irving Penn.

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