“Courage and visions, generosity and humility, money and time, a strong sense of historical significance, as well as of aesthetic quality – these are the factors of circumstance and character which have made peggy Guggenheim an extraordinary patron of 20th century art”
"The face of art has been transformed. It is natural that this should have come about, as a result of the industrial revolution. Art mirrors its age, therefore it had to change completely, as the world changes so vastly and so quickly. One cannot expect every decade to produce genius"
In the articled on how I started to be a collected, I related a story about a woman who went around an art show grumbling bitterly all the time. I approached her and asked why she bothered to come and look at the painting that seemed so much to displease her. She replied that she wished to learn what modern art was all about. I warned her how dangerous it was to do so as she might become an addict.
“Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy.”
DESCRIPTION
In Delta of Venus, Anais Nin pens a lush, magical world where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Among these provocative stories, a Hungarian adventurer seduces wealthy women then vanishes with their money; a veiled woman selects strangers from a chic restaurant for private trysts; and a Parisian hatmaker named Mathilde leaves her husband for the opium dens of Peru.
'Anaïs Nin excites male readers and incites female readers ... and she comes against life with a vital artistry and boldness' - The New York Times Book Review
In Delta of Venus Anaïs Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of sexual encounters. Creating her own 'language of the senses', she explores an area that was previously the domain of male writers and brings to it her own unique perceptions. Her vibrant and impassioned prose evokes the essence of female sexuality in a world where only love has meaning.
FACTS
Anais Nin is hailed as the most prominent women writer of erotica
Her mission was to express " women's language, seeing sexual experience from a woman's point of view.
She began to write erotica for a private client in 1940 in Paris, from which is recounted in her book Delta Venus and Little Birds
She had an intimate relationship with Henry Miller which led to a love triangle with his wife, and the inspiration for her book Henry and June.
Letter correspondence between the controversial writers are collected in the book A Literate Passion Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller
There is a 1995 film adaptation of the same title
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