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Road is Wider Than Long 2021 2nd New edition [Hardback]

  • Format: Hardback, 64 pages, height x width x depth: 216x169x12 mm, 40 Illustrations, black and white; 3 Illustrations, color
  • Pub. Date: 01-Jul-2025
  • Publisher: Lee Miller Archives Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 0953238997
  • ISBN-13: 9780953238996
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  • Format: Hardback, 64 pages, height x width x depth: 216x169x12 mm, 40 Illustrations, black and white; 3 Illustrations, color
  • Pub. Date: 01-Jul-2025
  • Publisher: Lee Miller Archives Publishing
  • ISBN-10: 0953238997
  • ISBN-13: 9780953238996
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A reproduction of a 1938 photobook Roland Penrose made for Lee Miller as they traveled the world at the outset of World War II.

In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. Penrose was a painter, author, and curator. Miller, previously a model, was a brilliant photographer. As they traveled, Penrose created pictures and took notes, and on their return produced a charming handmade photobook for Miller&;a surrealist love poem, drawn from his own memories and records.

This special facsimile edition of the book Penrose wrote for Miller has an important place in the history of Surrealist literature, and it provides a fascinating glimpse into the lives of two artists and their journey of discovery in a world that would soon be transformed forever.
Sir Roland Penrose is best known as a Surrealist artist and for his biography of his friend Picasso, Picasso : his life and work (1958), followed by books on Joan Miró (1970), Man Ray (1975),  Antoni Tàpies (1978), and his autobiography Scrap Book, 1900 1981(1981). He organised the highly acclaimed Picasso retrospective for the Tate Gallery in 1960, followed by other key exhibitions at the Tate and major galleries. He co-founded the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art) in 1947 but returned to painting in the last decade of his life, with exhibitions of his collages in London, Paris and Brighton.