Table of Contents

The Earliest Scent of Spring 19041928 * The Persistence of Memory * Self-Portrait Splitting Into Three * Honey Is Sweeter than Blood Youths Anatomy, Divine and Clear 19291939 * Accommodations of Desires * The Specter of Sex Appeal * Metamorphosis of Narcissus * The Great Paranoiac * Freuds Perverse Polymorph The Rape of Self-Reflection Is Complete * Suburbs of a Paranoiac-Critical Town: Afternoon on the Outskirts of European History * At the Hour of the Crackled Visage * Melancholy, Atomic Uranic Idyll At the Verge of Night, Red Cutlery Glitters * The Madonna of Port Lligat * The Hallucinogenic Toreador * Puzzle of Autumn This Approaching Metamorphosis * The Horsemen of Death * The Image Disappears

About the Author

Meredith Etherington-Smith is the author of a biography of Jean Patou, the European editor of Town & Country, and the editor of Christie's International Magazine.