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The Road is Wider Than Long
The Road is Wider Than Long
The Road is Wider Than Long
The Road is Wider Than Long

The Road is Wider Than Long

By (author) Roland Penrose

$25.00

Publishing 30th Sep 2025
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  • Art history - one of the first photobooks created
  • Surrealist Poetry       
Full Description

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.

About the Author

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 organized 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.

Specifications
Publisher
Lee Miller Archives
ISBN
9781914298004
Publish date
30th Sep 2025
Binding
Hardback
Territory
USA & Canada
Size
6.65 in x 8.27 in
Pages
50 Pages
Illustrations
3 color, 39 b&w
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