The Love Lives of the Artists : Counterpoint : 9781619021006 : 1619021005 : 12 Feb 2013 : Of the many freedoms we enjoy in modern society, none is more intoxicating or socially disruptive than the possibility that there might be alternatives to traditional marriage, and no one has shown us how to use this freedom better than the celebrities and artists whose unconventional relationships were evidence of creativity and individuality. But what do their stories tell us? What does the work of art do for an artist as a lover? And how do an artists&; affairs both emerge from and influence their creativity? The Love Lives of the Artists tells the stories of artists who saw the open relationship as the fulfillment of their art. Certainly, some used their open relationships to torture themselves and others; but some were able to ?put up with a good deal of contradictory nonsense,&; as Georgia O'Keeffe put it?suffering nervous breakdowns or drug and alcohol addictions, along with jealous tormen