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Jean Cocteau
Author | : Claude Arnaud |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 1039 |
Release | : 2016-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780300182163 |
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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.
Jean Cocteau
Author | : James S. Williams |
Publsiher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2008-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 186189354X |
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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.
Les Enfants Terribles
Author | : Jean Cocteau |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Brothers and sisters |
ISBN | : 9780099561378 |
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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...
Letter to the Americans
Author | : Jean Cocteau |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 2022-06-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780811231602 |
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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.
Jean Cocteau Coloring Book
Author | : Jean Cocteau Committee |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1551526409 |
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A coloring book for adults (and others) that delves into the dizzying imagination of artist/playwright/filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
My Contemporaries
Author | : Jean Cocteau |
Publsiher | : Peter Owen Modern Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0720612586 |
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Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents. In the fields of theater, cinema, art, ballet, and literature, Cocteau made many lifelong friends. Intimate portraits of some of the greatest artists of his age are included in this memorable memoir. Jean Cocteau was drawn to larger-than-life or seemingly unreal characters. He believed that their unreality was often the clue to the secrets of their personality. In descriptions of his contemporaries, Cocteau is able to illustrate everything that is accessible, sympathetic, memorable, durable, all-pervading, or dazzling about them. Ranging from the moving and atmospheric (the dying Proust in his cork-lined chamber) to the hilariously camp (Colette being carried from her apartment by sedan chair to have lunch across the road), it is in these portraits that the essence of his own work can be found. The portraits include Proust, Picasso, Piaf, Colette, Chaplin, and many more.
Jean Cocteau and His World
Author | : Arthur King Peters |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : UOM:39015013356301 |
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Jean Cocteau
Author | : James S. Williams |
Publsiher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2006-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 071905883X |
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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.