Credits

Photograph on page 21, top left, © 1961 by Hiroshi Hamaya/Magnum.

Photograph on page 26, top left, from collection of Mobilier National, Paris.

Photograph of drawing on page 26 by James Dee.

Kandinsky porcelain on page 26, right, from Collection Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; photo courtesy of MNAM, Paris.

Painting on page 28, top left, courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York.

Painting on page 28, lower left, from the collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, courtesy of Wildenstein Gallery, New York.

"Roman Elegies" is from the forthcoming book Roman Elegies, by Joseph Brodsky, © 1983 by Joseph Brodsky. To be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. in spring 1984. "Ill" on page 46 © 1981 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Reprinted by permission.

Photograph on page 61, inset, courtesy of MGM/UA.

Photographs on pages 70-71: large photograph and inset, bottom left, from UPI; inset, top center, by Horst; inset, bottom right, from Wide World.

Photograph on page 74 from UPI, courtesy of Random House.

Photograph on page 77 from UPI.

Painting on page 79 from the collection of the Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Drawing on page 81 from the series "Fourteen Drawings," 1933, illustrating chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights, from a private collection, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Painting on pages 82-83 from a private collection, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Painting on page 84 from the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Ceramic sculptures on pages 88-95 photographed by George Lang.

Photograph on page 97 courtesy of Orion Pictures.

Photograph on page 98 from Pictorial Parade.

Photographs on page 99: left and right from Phototeque; center © Brian Hamill/Photoreporters.

Photographs on page 100: top left © Brian Hamill/Photoreporters; top right from Phototeque; bottom from Sygma.

Photograph on page 101 from Gamma-Liaison.

"Salesman in Beijing" is from the forthcoming book Salesman in Beijing, by Arthur Miller, © 1983 by Arthur Miller. To be published by Viking Press. Printed by permission of the author and International Creative Management

Paintings on pages 128, 131, and 132 from One Man Show, © 1981 by Beryl Cook, published by John Murray Ltd. and Gallery 5 Ltd.

All photographs and illustrations on pages 140—43 from the collection of Jeanne Ballot Winham, except photograph on page 141 of George Arliss by Maurice Goldberg and photographs on page 142: Sally Rand and Fanny Brice by Lusha Nelson; Alexander Woollcott by Florence Vandamm; Elinor Wylie by Nickolas Muray.