Poetic illumination : René Char and his artist allies / / Rosemary Lancaster.

• Superior document: Faux titre ; 357
• Author: Lancaster, Rosemary.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; 357.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Acknowledgements
• Titles of Collections
• René Char: 1907–1988
• Introduction
• Surrealism and Beyond: Kandinsky, Dali, Corot, Courbet
• Picasso Reviewed: from Fact to Myth
• New Horizons: “Presenting Georges Braque”
• The Fantastic Realism of Joan Miró
• Georges de La Tour: Artist of Light and Shade
• The Magic of Lascaux
• Nicolas de Staël: Seeker of Summits, Child of the Pole Star
• Vieira da Silva: A Web of Connections
• The Last Collections: Vincent Van Gogh and Alexandre Galperine
• The Illumination of the Poet
• Dramatis Personæ
• Selective Bibliography
• Index.