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""Jacqueline Lamba was a leading light of the Surrealist movement, but it has taken a century for her to receive credit that is her due. This landmark biography sets the record straight. It reveals her two worlds - external and internal - and the ways in which they both bolstered and inhibited her output. Jacqueline Lamba: The Forgotten Surrealist takes Lamba from the childhood loss of her father through her relationships with André Breton, David Hare, and Frida Kahlo to her final years in the south of France where she painted her most radiant works. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in Surrealism."" Katharine Conley, co-editor of the International Journal of Surrealism and author of Surrealist Ghostliness (2013) ""Fascinating! I've just finished reading a superb biography, so perfectly crafted that it rescues from the shadows the life of an artist forgotten and overlooked by historians. Salomon Grimberg has done an exhaustive job, extracting hundreds of pieces of information, like an archaeologist. The author does not hide the darker aspects of Lamba's personality, but the entire text constitutes a profound reflection on the tremendous struggle of a woman to be considered an artist without ties, for her independence, her liberation, and, above all, for her dignity."" Josefina Alix, art historian and exhibition curator, author of Surrealism in Exile: The Beginning of the New York School (2000) ""She creates an intoxicating dream world.' The Art Digest

""Fascinating! I've just finished reading a superb biography, so perfectly crafted that it rescues from the shadows the life of an artist forgotten and overlooked by historians. Salomon Grimberg has done an exhaustive job, extracting hundreds of pieces of information, like an archaeologist. The author does not hide the darker aspects of Lamba's personality, but the entire text constitutes a profound reflection on the tremendous struggle of a woman to be considered an artist without ties, for her independence, her liberation, and, above all, for her dignity."" Josefina Alix, art historian and exhibition curator, author of Surrealism in Exile: The Beginning of the New York School (2000) ""Jacqueline Lamba was a leading light of the Surrealist movement, but it has taken a century for her to receive credit that is her due. This landmark biography sets the record straight. It reveals her two worlds - external and internal - and the ways in which they both bolstered and inhibited her output. Insatiable takes Lamba from the childhood loss of her father through her relationships with André Breton, David Hare, and Frida Kahlo to her final years in the south of France where she painted her most radiant works. This book is essential reading for everyone interested in Surrealism."" Katharine Conley, co-editor of the International Journal of Surrealism and author of Surrealist Ghostliness (2013) ""She creates an intoxicating dream world.' The Art Digest

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Salomon Grimberg writes on various aspects of the creative process. He co-edited Frida Kahlo's Das Gesamtwerk (1988), co-authored Remedios Vero's catalogue raisonné (1994), and has written numerous articles and essays for museum exhibition catalogues. He has curated shows on Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Nickolas Muray, and the 2001 travelling retrospective exhibition Jacqueline Lamba: In Spite of Everything, Spring. He is the author of Frida Kahlo: The Still Lifes (Merrell, 2008), Frida Kahlo Song of Herself (Merrell, 2008), Frida Kahlo, I Will Never Forget You (2004), and Nickolas Muray, Portrait of a Photographer (2013). He is contributing editor to the Woman's Art Journal and is working on the authorized catalogue raisonné of Leonora Carrington's paintings.

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