Reviews

"The women of Tamara de Lempicka, with their stainless steel eroticism and level gazes--athletic, fearless, as powerful as their motor cars and airplanes--have always impressed me as the true emblems of a utopian modernism. What must the artist herself have been like if these were her creations? Laura Claridge's remarkable biography demonstrates that the artist was precisely what we would have imagined she had to be, in order to paint a new order of women for a brave new form of life."
-- Arthur C. Danto, Art Critic, The Nation