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Poetic illumination : Réne Char and his artist allies

By Rosemary , Char , Rene; Lancaster

Book information

Publisher
Rodopi
Year
2010
ISBN
9042032073, 978-90-420-3207-1, 9781282916913, 1282916912, 978-90-420-3208-8, 9042032081
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
56 MB (58308107 bytes)
Series
Faux titre 357
Pages
252\245
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

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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