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Twinned lives

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February 2014, no. 358

Fantasy Modern: Loudon Sainthill's Theatre of Art and Life by Andrew Montana

NewSouth Publishing, $89.99 hb, 664 pp, 9781742233871

Twinned lives

by
February 2014, no. 358

Reading Andrew Montana’s new biography of Loudon Sainthill leaves one imagining how much the artist would have achieved without his lover, amanuensis, and entrepreneur, Harry Tatlock Miller. Lovers for some thirty-four years, they seem destined to achieve remarkable things together. Well into his project Montana realised that he could not tell Sainthill’s story without Miller’s, and so Fantasy Modern became a dual biography, a ‘portrait of a marriage’ of two gay men and of the work that bound them. It is also an encyclopedic trip through rapid aesthetic change, a social-family history of rare individuals, and urban culture shaped by art and design, not just coffee, magazines, and booze.

Lee Christofis reviews 'Fantasy Modern: Loudon Sainthill's Theatre of Art and Life' by Andrew Montana

Fantasy Modern: Loudon Sainthill's Theatre of Art and Life

by Andrew Montana

NewSouth Publishing, $89.99 hb, 664 pp, 9781742233871

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