Poetic illumination : : Rene Char and his artist allies / / Rosemary Lancaster.
In 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of René Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Char’s hand-written poems. Char’s artistic associations, spanning seven decades, remain remarkable today...
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| Superior document: | Faux titre ; 357 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Faux titre ;
357. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | In 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of René Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Char’s hand-written poems. Char’s artistic associations, spanning seven decades, remain remarkable today. Not only was he amply illustrated by those he called his “substantial allies”; the dedicatory poems and prose pieces they inspired, written with revelatory flair, constitute a unique corpus in the history of art and poetic enterprise. This book brings together an exemplary number of the artists Char prized over time: Dali and Kandinsky in the early years; later, Picasso, Braque and Miró; yet later, Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël and Alexandre Galperine. It also considers the poet’s fascination with Corot, Courbet, La Tour, Van Gogh and the cave art of Lascaux. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1282916912 9786612916915 9042032081 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Rosemary Lancaster. |