Vali Myers Dream within a Dream - Available now!!
FEATURES
Visually stunning hardback
Comprehensive biography of artist's life
60+ pen and ink drawings by Vali Myers
Includes multiple photographs and diary entries
For celebrated bohemian and international icon Vali Myers, art and life were inextricably fused. Her prescience as a dancer, a visual artist and a diarist attracted admirers that included Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and Joni Mitchell. But Vali was equally revered for her self-fashioned persona and alternate lifestyle shared with more than 100 animals in the remote canyon of Il Porto, Positano. This ‘kingdom by the sea’ was the well-spring of her creativity and formed the backdrop of autobiographical pen and ink drawings that are scattered in private collections across the world.
From conservative Melbourne in the 1940s, to street urchin in postwar Paris, and from 1960s Italy to the counter culture scene of New York, this book follows in Vali’s footsteps to reanimate the art and life of an inspiring Australian visionary.
“My utmost dream ̶ Foxy and me living in the Skeleton of a great whale ̶ our burrow by the sea.” Vali Myers (1930-2003)
FEATURES
Visually stunning hardback
Comprehensive biography of artist's life
60+ pen and ink drawings by Vali Myers
Includes multiple photographs and diary entries
For celebrated bohemian and international icon Vali Myers, art and life were inextricably fused. Her prescience as a dancer, a visual artist and a diarist attracted admirers that included Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and Joni Mitchell. But Vali was equally revered for her self-fashioned persona and alternate lifestyle shared with more than 100 animals in the remote canyon of Il Porto, Positano. This ‘kingdom by the sea’ was the well-spring of her creativity and formed the backdrop of autobiographical pen and ink drawings that are scattered in private collections across the world.
From conservative Melbourne in the 1940s, to street urchin in postwar Paris, and from 1960s Italy to the counter culture scene of New York, this book follows in Vali’s footsteps to reanimate the art and life of an inspiring Australian visionary.
“My utmost dream ̶ Foxy and me living in the Skeleton of a great whale ̶ our burrow by the sea.” Vali Myers (1930-2003)
FEATURES
Visually stunning hardback
Comprehensive biography of artist's life
60+ pen and ink drawings by Vali Myers
Includes multiple photographs and diary entries
For celebrated bohemian and international icon Vali Myers, art and life were inextricably fused. Her prescience as a dancer, a visual artist and a diarist attracted admirers that included Salvador Dali, Jean Cocteau, Tennessee Williams, and Joni Mitchell. But Vali was equally revered for her self-fashioned persona and alternate lifestyle shared with more than 100 animals in the remote canyon of Il Porto, Positano. This ‘kingdom by the sea’ was the well-spring of her creativity and formed the backdrop of autobiographical pen and ink drawings that are scattered in private collections across the world.
From conservative Melbourne in the 1940s, to street urchin in postwar Paris, and from 1960s Italy to the counter culture scene of New York, this book follows in Vali’s footsteps to reanimate the art and life of an inspiring Australian visionary.
“My utmost dream ̶ Foxy and me living in the Skeleton of a great whale ̶ our burrow by the sea.” Vali Myers (1930-2003)