Praise for A Vast Horizon:
‘Excellent and revealing... at the end we feel their loss as if they had been our friends’ Antony Penrose, Lee Miller Archives
‘A brilliant and engrossing book. Anna Thomasson prowls around her extraordinary group of artists, poets, and models with the subtle skill of a documentary maker, zooming in on their hidden histories and complex relationships to shed a sharp new light on the wartime lives of Picasso, Dora Maar, Man Ray, Lee Miller, Eileen Agar and Roland Penrose. It’s a triumph: the best group history I’ve read in a decade.’ Miranda Seymour, author of The Bugatti Queen
‘To those who aimed to do it properly, Surrealism was a whole way of living that defied all convention – not just in art and writing, but in every act of being. Beginning with a single, tantalizing photograph, Anna Thomasson weaves a fascinating story around eight figures in the Surrealist movement. Beautifully told, I found it wonderfully interesting and hugely informative.’ David Boyd Haycock, author of A Crisis of Brilliance
'History in which deep ocean currents flow through individual lives . . . a compelling read.' Michael Bird, author of This Is Tomorrow: Twentieth-century Britain and its Artists
‘At once intimate and expansive, A Vast Horizon layers real upon surreal to build a fascinating portrait of art, war, and life.’ Clare Mulley, author of Agent Zo
‘With an enviable lightness of touch, Anna Thomasson orchestrates the interweaving of their lives... This chapter in the history of human and artistic relations has never been better recounted... the book contains some of the best writing on Eileen Agar to date.’ Andrew Lambirth, co-author of A Look at My Life