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The daring women artists of last century were often sidelined as muses. A new book celebrates their brilliance

When I first studied art history in the late 1960s, all artists were men. It seemed, back then, that the act of rendering an image in line and colour, or visualising pure emotion, was confined to the gender that controlled society at the time.

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What can another Lee Miller exhibition tell us about the model-artist-photographer? A lot, it turns out

IN FOCUS: For too long, Lee Miller’s life and work has been seen through the lens of her personal life as Man Ray’s lover and muse to Picasso. A new retrospective at Tate Britain affords her wider recognition for her Surrealist artistry, writes Mark Hudson

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Dismissed, excluded and now adored: the revenge of the women surrealists

Written off as ‘muses’ and denied entry to the movement, they still produced extraordinary work that is only now being appreciated. We enter a gender-breaking world of occult worship – and cats

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Kate Winslet, Andy Samberg, and Alexander Skarsgård talk working on Winslet’s years-in-the-making passion project about one of history's most interesting but forgotten photographers

Big Screen Spotlight | The cast of Lee breaks down the new Lee Miller biopic

Total Film

Lee Miller: the model-turned-photographer who brought the horrors of war to Vogue

Kate Winslet battled for eight long years to get her biopic of American war photographer Lee Miller made, and this week finally saw its UK release. The Lee in question is the American-born Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a remarkable woman whose glamorous and colourful life has often overshadowed her photographic career.

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Peggy Guggenheim: ‘My motto was “Buy a picture a day” and I lived up to it’

Five years spent at her Sussex country retreat inspired Peggy Guggenheim to reframe her future, kickstarting one of the most thrilling modern-art collections in history

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Kate Winslet insisted her film about Lee Miller must have female director

Cinematographer Ellen Kuras, who was hired by actor to make her directorial debut, says biopic of photojournalist shows woman plunged ‘into heart of darkness’

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Lee Miller’s unbelievable life: From Hitler’s bathtub to tomato soup cake

Photographer Lee Miller, the subject of a major new film starring Kate Winslet, used her camera lens to pioneer a new way of seeing conflict. Later, broken by what she saw during the Second World War, she found respite in a Sussex farmhouse called Farleys, where she would begin her…

The Independent UK

In the footsteps of Lee Miller and the surrealists: a tour of her arty Sussex retreat

A film about the war photographer and model Lee Miller will be released this year. Her son is our guide for a trip to Farleys, her art-filled Sussex home

The Guardian - UK

Suzannah Pettigrew's 'tender and ghostly' new show at Surrealist photographer Lee Miller's former home in East Sussex

London-based artist Suzannah Pettigrew's photographic stills create a snapshot of her Sussex coast childhood, conjuring up a hallucinatory world of memory

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‘Picasso nearly fell over backwards when he saw her’ – Lee Miller’s son on their intense relationship

She was a model-turned-photographer whose unflinching eye captured the horror of the Nazis. But for too long, this extraordinary woman was defined as ‘Picasso’s muse’. As a new show puts this right, her son looks back

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