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Lee Miller: Picasso’s Cubist Portrait

Pablo Picasso. Portrait of Lee Miller as L’Arlesienne. 1937. Musée Picasso, Paris. Exhibition note for Lee Miller. Picasso in Private at Museu Picasso in Barcelona: Lee Miller … took over a thousand photographs of Picasso during the thirty-six years of … Continue reading






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Judith Thurman on Lee Miller

Tom mentioned a Lee Miller profile in this week’s New Yorker. It’s written by Judith Thurman, author of Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of Colette. The full text isn’t available yet on the New Yorker web site, but here … Continue reading






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Mouffe at the Movies: The Blood of a Poet

Reel 1: Jean Cocteau. The Blood of a Poet (trailer). Lee Miller played the Statue in Jean Cocteau’s Surrealist classic, The Blood of a Poet (Le Sang d’un Poéte). It’s a trippy, enigmatic film laden with “deep” imagery. The original … Continue reading






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Lee Miller: Surreal Statue

Lee Miller played the Statue in Jean Cocteau’s 1930 Surrealist film The Blood of a Poet. [Source: Senses of Cinema] Lee Miller’s first and only movie role was playing the Statue in Jean Cocteau’s 1930 film The Blood of a … Continue reading






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Lee Miller: Picasso’s Liberation

War correspondent Lee Miller visited Pablo Picasso’s studio on the day Allied troops liberated Paris in August 1944. [Source: Guardian/Lee Miller Archives] See Lee Miller: Flapper Fashionista, Lee Miller: Surrealist Muse and Lee Miller: War Photographer.






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