Emil White's autobiography will wake up a lot of people as to his importance in the artistic and personal life of Henry Miller, not to mention Emil's own art, which is an autobiography in itself--his naive and/or primitive paintings here elucidate one-by-one the artist himself. This is a book for all lovers of that "cult of sex and anarchy" (as Harpers described it) in Big Sur, a cult that really only consisted of Henry Miller and Emil and their assorted "mail order girlfriends." Although Henry and Emil should be rated among the world's great lovers of women, Emil's own paintings--curiously enough--hardly ever portray women close up, the majority of surviving canvasses being landscapes of the Big Sur country. That's where they were actually painted, yet they could have been anyplace, for theirs is a landscape of the innocent imagination which exists beyond place and time.
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