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The Road is Wider Than Long

Roland Penrose

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Hardback

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English
Lee Miller Archives Publishing
01 July 2025
A beautiful, tactile facsimile of the handwritten version of Roland Penrose's The Road is Wider than Long Surrealist photobook.

In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. On his return to England Roland produced a handmade photobook containing a Surrealist love poem drawn from his memories and pictures from their travels. The following year he would create and print a typeset version based on this book which has today an important place in the history of Surrealist photobooks.

AUTHOR: Sir Roland Penrose: English Surrealist painter, photographer, poet and biographer of Picasso, Miró, Man Ray and Tàpies. Co-founder of the ICA and major promoter and collector of modern art.

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Art history - one of first photobooks created .

Surrealist Poetry

3 colour, 39 b/w illustrations
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Imprint:   Lee Miller Archives Publishing
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 210mm,  Width: 169mm,  Spine: 10mm
ISBN:   9781914298004
ISBN 10:   1914298004
Pages:   50
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

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