A beautiful, tactile facsimile of the handwritten version of Roland Penrose's The Road is Wider than Long Surrealist photobook. In 1938, as Europe prepared for war, Roland Penrose and Lee Miller made a journey together through the Balkans. On his return to England Roland produced a handmade photobook containing a Surrealist love poem drawn from his memories and pictures from their travels. The following year he would create and print a typeset version based on this book which has today an important place in the history of Surrealist photobooks. AUTHOR: Sir Roland Penrose: English Surrealist painter, photographer, poet and biographer of Picasso, Miró, Man Ray and Tàpies. Co-founder of the ICA and major promoter and collector of modern art. SELLING POINTS: . Art history - one of first photobooks created . Surrealist Poetry 3 colour, 39 b/w illustrations
