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Author : Arthur King Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015013356301
Author : Claude Arnaud
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 1039 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300182163
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 : W. Clement Stone
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X000138396
Provides insight into the artistry and scope of Cocteau's work and the relation of his writings and private life.
Author : Jean Cocteau Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551526409
A coloring book for adults (and others) that delves into the dizzying imagination of artist/playwright/filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Random House
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Brothers and sisters
ISBN : 9780099561378
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,Robert Phelps
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:982197996
Author : Francis Steegmuller
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Artists
ISBN : UOM:39015028482191
A photographer once remarked to André Maurois, "If I were to take a picture of a village wedding, Jean Cocteau would appear between the bride and groom." And he was right; Cocteau was photographed everywhere, by everyone, in all guises and poses. Cecil Beaton posed him smoking an opium pipe, Lucien Clergue caught him in the romantic ruins of Arles where Cocteau was shooting Orphée, Arnold Newman shot him in Paris, and Philippe Halsman in New York. Cocteau possessed, of course, a modern genius for self-promotion, but he also cared deeply about his own art and the art of a technique he embraced with passion throughout his lifetime -- photography.
Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : ERIS
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781912475551
“Discomfort is the hallmark of the poet. His world is almost uninhabitable. People sense this. They enter it as little as possible, as quickly as possible, and only out of curiosity.” Widely celebrated for his work in the fields of literature, cinema, and the visual arts, Jean Cocteau was one of the twentieth century’s outstanding creative practitioners. In this collection of brief—often aphoristic—meditations, Jean Cocteau reflects on the fundamental solitariness of the artistic vocation. As well as offering fascinating insights into Cocteau’s own achievements, Secrets of Beauty is a moving testament to the artist’s need and obligation to pursue an independent path, and to the disjunction between art and “the inflexible everyday world”. Juliet Powys’s translation skilfully captures the wit and subtlety of the original French text—a vital contribution to aesthetic theory that deserves to be read as a significant work of literature in its own right.
Author : Wallace Fowlie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Poets, French
ISBN : UOM:39015015393419
Om den franske digter Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 071905883X
This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as those often neglected or little known.
Author : Patrick Mauriès
Publisher : Assouline
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0500237603
Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, artist, illustrator and film producer, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) possessed the enviable ability to apply his talent and vision to many different artistic fields. Rising to fame with his friend Diaghilev after the First World War, Cocteau lived his whole life as a member of the avant-garde. He created a strange and mythical world, in films such as Orphée, La Belle et la Bête and Le Testament d’Orphée, in his designs for Diaghilev’s ballets, and in his delicate drawings. In text and lavish illustrations including photographs of Cocteau himself, his drawings, wall paintings and programme designs, 'Jean Cocteau' is a tribute to the effervescent spirit and creative genius of one of the most innovative, original and versatile personalities of the 20th century.
Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 186189354X
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 : Tauris Parke Paperbacks
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-19
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1860645925
Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor of Paris-Soir, Cocteau sets off with his very own ‘Passepartout’ as companion on a picaresque voyage some sixty-three years after his fictional predecessor. He finds that the journey has lost none of its hazards and adventures as he races around the globe in tramp-ship, railway and ocean liner. Observing and recording the frenetic change of scenes from Athens and Alexandria to Bombay, Rangoon, and Yokohama and finally across the United States, Cocteau’s witty, subjective and sometimes outrageous narrative gives this unique travel-memoir a camp and stylish spin.
Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Authors, French
ISBN : UCSC:32106011870695
Author : Rosemary Wakeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226834191
An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of business tycoon Victor Sassoon. In this book, historian Rosemary Wakeman brings to life the frenzied, crowded streets, markets, ports, and banks of Bombay, London, and Shanghai. In the early twentieth century, these cities were at the forefront of the sweeping changes taking the world by storm as it entered an era of globalized commerce and the unprecedented circulation of goods, people, and ideas. Wakeman explores these cities and the world they helped transform through the life of Victor Sassoon, who in 1924 gained control of his powerful family’s trading and banking empire. She tracks his movements between these three cities as he grows his family’s fortune and transforms its holdings into a global juggernaut. Using his life as its point of entry, The Worlds of Victor Sassoon paints a broad portrait not just of wealth, cosmopolitanism, and leisure but also of the discrimination, exploitation, and violence wreaked by a world increasingly driven by the demands of capital.