Cocteau: a Biography
Author | : Francis Steegmuller |
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Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Francis Steegmuller |
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Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 1973 |
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Author | : Claude Arnaud |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 1039 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300182163 |
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 | : Jean Cocteau |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0811231607 |
Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront—its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations—in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.
Author | : James S. Williams |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781861893543 |
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 Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
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ISBN | : 9781551526409 |
A coloring book for adults (and others) that delves into the dizzying imagination of artist/playwright/filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Author | : William A. Emboden |
Publisher | : International Archive of Art, Limited |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
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Displays and discusses Cocteau's visual art, including paintings, ceramics, tapestries, murals, and sculpture.
Author | : Frederick Brown |
Publisher | : Viking |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Brown's biography is the fullest, the most ambitious close-up of Le Petit Cocteau's seven decades to appear in English. Brown evidently scoured all libraries, periods, and sources (including Cocteau's correspondence and the various memoirs of his friends), giving the reader the incidents, events, and revelations of one of the foremost creative minds of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. An Impersonation of Angels is of unequivocal importance.
Author | : Jean Cocteau |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | : 0099561379 |
At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...
Author | : Jean Cocteau |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 1970 |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1980 |
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