Poetic illumination
Subtitle: René Char and his artist allies
By: Rosemary Lancaster
Series: Faux titre -- 357; Faux titre -- no. 357.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789042032071; 9789042032088
Subjects: Friends and associates; French Poets; Art and literature; Biography; Artists
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 " 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."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.

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