Huguette Caland

An enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrating a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.

Beginning with the artist’s own words from what remain of annotated sketchbooks, this intimate volume journeys from Beirut through Paris to Venice, California, recording the impulses of an atypical, spellbinding character whose voice helped to shape mid- and late-twentieth-century modernism. 

Born in Beirut in 1931, the only daughter of the first post-independence president of Lebanon Bechara El Khoury, Huguette observed the blossoming of Lebanon’s creative and cultural scene as Beirut become a metaphorical jewel and the seat of many conjured mythologies. Following her father’s death, and now married to Frenchman Paul Caland and with three children, she completed her first… Keep Reading