Greta & Cecil

by Diana Souhami (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.28

  Greta Garbo and Cecil Beaton conducted a relationship whose boundaries merged between image and reality, fact and fantasy, male and female, and art and life. Drawing on diaries, letters, photographs and films, this biography shows how Greta and Cecil coded androgyny in their work.

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  Hardcover
  1994

  $3.28

  A brilliant and witty chronicle. . star - studded and light-filled, ' wrote John Richardson, biographer of Picasso, of Diana Souhami's double portrait of Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas, The same is true for Souhami's Greta and Cecil. Characterstically stylish, funny story of a bizarre romance where androgyny rules, rather than a heavy academic study. Wonderful double page spreads of both Garbo and Beaton dressed in male and female clothing.