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Author: Dore Ashton Publisher: New York : Abbeville Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
"In Jean Cocteau and the French Scene, eight prominent French and American authors address Cocteau's incessant artistic activities. These trenchant essays relate the poet's kaleidoscopic talents to the larger canvas of the artistic, literary, theatrical, musical, cinematic, and intellectual worlds in which he flourished."--Book jacket.
Author: Dore Ashton Publisher: New York : Abbeville Press ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 250
Book Description
"In Jean Cocteau and the French Scene, eight prominent French and American authors address Cocteau's incessant artistic activities. These trenchant essays relate the poet's kaleidoscopic talents to the larger canvas of the artistic, literary, theatrical, musical, cinematic, and intellectual worlds in which he flourished."--Book jacket.
Author: Jean Cocteau Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers ISBN: 9780714529745 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 224
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This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's own work for the cinema with detailed discussions of his aims, responses to criticism and his reflections on the relationship between poetry, theatre and film. He also comments on the movie stars he admires - Marlene Dietrich, James Dean, Brigitte Bardot - together with such great directors as Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles.
Author: Claude Arnaud Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300182163 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 1039
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This passionate and monumental biography reassesses the life and legacy of one of the most significant cultural figures of the twentieth century Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau’s “fragile genius—a combination almost unlivable in art” but in his case so fertile. Arnaud narrates the life of this legendary French novelist, poet, playwright, director, filmmaker, and designer who, as a young man, pretended to be a sort of a god, but who died as a humble and exhausted craftsman. His moving and compassionate account examines the nature of Cocteau’s chameleon-like genius, his romantic attachments, his controversial politics, and his intimate involvement with many of the century’s leading artistic lights, including Picasso, Proust, Hemingway, Stravinsky, and Tennessee Williams. Already published to great critical acclaim in France, Arnaud’s penetrating and deeply researched work reveals a uniquely gifted artist while offering a magnificent cultural history of the twentieth century.
Author: James S. Williams Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9781861893543 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James Williams offers here a groundbreaking analysis that sets them both within highly revealing historical and artistic contexts.
Author: Jean Cocteau Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers ISBN: 9780720610819 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 84
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Le Livre Blanc, a "white paper" on homosexual love, was first published anonymously in France by Cocteau's contemporary Maurice Sachs and was at once decried as by the critics as obscene. It is now possible to issue it under Cocteau's name. The semi-autobiographical narrative describes a youth's love affairs with a succession of boys and men during the early years of this century. The young man's self-deceptive attempts to find fulfilment, first through women and then by way of the church, are movingly conveyed; the book ends with a strong plea for male homosexuality to be accepted without censure. The book is fully illustrated and includes many woodcuts by the author.
Author: Cornelia A. Tsakiridou Publisher: Bucknell University Press ISBN: 9780838753798 Category : Languages : en Pages : 164
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Postmodernism's dedication to the rehabilitation of "lesser" artists and its revision of modernist history have not affected Cocteau studies even in areas of self-evident relevance like sexuality, myth, and gender.
Author: Lucy R. Lippard Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486456994 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 194
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A select anthology of the Dada movement focusing mainly on visual artists features prose, poetry, and polemics from such notables as Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Tristan Tzara, Hanna Hèoch, George Grosz, and Jean Cocteau.
Author: Dore Ashton
Author: Dore Ashton
Author: Jean Cocteau Committee
Author: Jean Cocteau
Author: Claude Arnaud
Author: William A. Emboden
Author: James S. Williams
Author: Jean Cocteau
Author: Cornelia A. Tsakiridou
Author: Lucy R. Lippard
Author: James Jackson