The Love Lives of the Artists

As the oldest of institutions marriage seems outdated in modern times when each individual is encouraged to break with tradition in order to fulfill him or herself. And so artists like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo seem to be paving the way toward a brave new kind of marriage where spouses would be allowedeven encouragedto fulfill different aspects of themselves in outside relationships. Shared creativity they believed would transcend their jealousies and compensate their sufferings: through art they would rise above conventional marital fidelity and prove a higher fidelity to art and to themselves.. The Love Lives of the Artists tells the stories of Rainer Maria Rilke and Lou AndreasSalom Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O''Keeffe JeanPaul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Diego and Frida and Henry Miller and Anas Ninfive couples who approached their relationships with the same rebellious creativity as they practiced in their art. From their early artistic development and their first experiences in love to their artistic marriages and their affairsand then to their fights and reconciliations addictions nervous breakdowns and continued creativityThe Love Lives of the Artists describes the promise and the price of freedom and creativity in love.