Infinite Variety: The Life and Legend of the Marchesa CasatiThe Ultimate Edition

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Artists from Man Ray to Augustus John painted, sculpted, and photographed her; writers, including Jean Cocteau, Ezra Pound, and Jack Kerouac, praised her strange beauty; celebrities and royalty were awed by her lavish parties and spectacles at her homes in Italy and France. Fully authorized, completely updated, and richly illustrated, this is the fantastic story of the Marchesa Luisa Casati.

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"Fascinating . . . with or without her cheetahs, the Marchesa Casatis circus of the self makes her a natural for the new millennium."Vanity Fair

"A meticulously researched biography, Infinite Variety is as much art history as chronicle of personal obsession."New York Times

"Ryersson and Yaccarino are judicious historians of frivolity who capture the tone of a life that was obscenely profligate yet strangely pure."The New Yorker

"Beautifully written . . . Prepare to be astonished."ELLE

Author Bio

Scot D. Ryersson is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and graphic designer.

Michael Orlando Yaccarino is a freelance writer specializing in international genre film, fashion, music, and unconventional historical figures.

Quentin Crisp (19081999) led a long and multifaceted lifefrom artists model and commentator on style and etiquette to writer and theatrical and film performer. He is famous for his autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant.

Francesca Granata is assistant professor of fashion studies at the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, the New School. She is author of Experimental Fashion: Performance Art, Carnival and the Grotesque Body.