Download or read book Cocteau s World written by Jean Cocteau and published by London : Owen. This book was released on 1973 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides insight into the artistry and scope of Cocteau's work and the relation of his writings and private life.
Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Claude Arnaud and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Jean Cocteau and His World written by Arthur King Peters and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jean Cocteau Coloring Book written by Jean Cocteau Committee and published by . This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coloring book for adults (and others) that delves into the dizzying imagination of artist/playwright/filmmaker Jean Cocteau.
Download or read book Jean Cocteau and the Music of Post World War I France written by Marlisa Jeanine Monroe and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scandal Parade written by Neal Oxenhandler and published by New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1957 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tell Jean Cocteau that I adore him, the only person for whom Myth opens its gates, and from which he returns bronzed as from the seaside," wrote the poet Rainer Maria Rilke. Cocteau's work has inspired this same degree of admiration in many people, but until now the "mystery" he insists upon has defied critics of his novels, plays and poems. In this first book-length analysis in English of one of the most fascinating literary figures of our time, Neal Oxenhandler explores that mystery, appropriately using the theater as the focus of his study. All the major Cocteau plays, certain of the minor ones, and a selection of the films are covered in this book. Mr. Oxenhandler's narration of the action of the plays, which contributes to the critical themes he develops, is so skillful that the reader need not have read the plays themselves. First setting forth the cultural and historical background of Cocteau's work, Oxenhandler shows, for the first time, the relation of Cocteau to Expressionism. He goes on to take up the matter of Cocteau's style, prefiguring a theme which the rest of the book develops: Cocteau's use of ambiguity. In the main body of the book, the author breaks down Cocteau's mystery into various aspects. There is the theme of persecution--Cocteau's characters are running away from something. There is what the author calls "a kind of moral failure," which he analyzes in terms of the Sartrian theory of "engagement"; Cocteau's characters are unable to become involved in the world around them. The author's final evaluation of Cocteau rests on the theory of a literature of negation which expresses value by a denial of value and in which anguish of one form or another is a substitute for choice. He sees Cocteau as "one of the great creators of negative literature; and perhaps in his sense of honesty and the authenticity of his struggle he has given us the true tragedy of our age."--Adapted from book jacket.
Download or read book Art and Faith written by Jacques Maritain and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The meaning of poetry and the sociological and political significance of art are dealt with in these letters.
Download or read book Round the World Again in 80 Days written by Jean Cocteau and published by Tauris Parke Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-08-19 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean Cocteau retraces the most celebrated round-the-world voyage of all time: that of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg in 1873. Taking up an impulsive challenge from the editor of Paris-Soir, Cocteau sets off with his very own ‘Passepartout’ as companion on a picaresque voyage some sixty-three years after his fictional predecessor. He finds that the journey has lost none of its hazards and adventures as he races around the globe in tramp-ship, railway and ocean liner. Observing and recording the frenetic change of scenes from Athens and Alexandria to Bombay, Rangoon, and Yokohama and finally across the United States, Cocteau’s witty, subjective and sometimes outrageous narrative gives this unique travel-memoir a camp and stylish spin.
Download or read book Sissi s World written by Maura E. Hametz and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sissi's World offers a transdisciplinary approach to the study of the Habsburg Empress Elisabeth of Austria. It investigates the myths, legends, and representations across literature, art, film, and other media of one of the most popular, revered, and misunderstood female figures in European cultural history. Sissi's World explores the cultural foundations for the endurance of the Sissi legends and the continuing fascination with the beautiful empress: a Bavarian duchess born in 1837, the longest-serving Austrian empress, and the queen of Hungary who died in 1898 at the hands of a crazed anarchist. Despite the continuing fascination with “the beloved Sissi," the Habsburg empress, her impact, and legacy have received scant attention from scholars. This collection will go beyond the popular biographical accounts, recountings of her mythic beauty, and scattered studies of her well-known eccentricities to offer transdisciplinary cultural perspectives across art, film, fashion, history, literature, and media.
Download or read book Cocteau s World written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Patrick Mauriès and published by Assouline. This book was released on 1998 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, novelist, dramatist, essayist, artist, illustrator and film producer, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) possessed the enviable ability to apply his talent and vision to many different artistic fields. Rising to fame with his friend Diaghilev after the First World War, Cocteau lived his whole life as a member of the avant-garde. He created a strange and mythical world, in films such as Orphée, La Belle et la Bête and Le Testament d’Orphée, in his designs for Diaghilev’s ballets, and in his delicate drawings. In text and lavish illustrations including photographs of Cocteau himself, his drawings, wall paintings and programme designs, 'Jean Cocteau' is a tribute to the effervescent spirit and creative genius of one of the most innovative, original and versatile personalities of the 20th century.
Download or read book Cocteau a Biography written by Francis Steegmuller and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Du Cin matographe written by Jean Cocteau and published by Marion Boyars Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This posthumous collection of writings illuminates Cocteau's own work for the cinema with detailed discussions of his aims, responses to criticism and his reflections on the relationship between poetry, theatre and film. He also comments on the movie stars he admires - Marlene Dietrich, James Dean, Brigitte Bardot - together with such great directors as Charlie Chaplin and Orson Welles.
Download or read book The Esthetic of Jean Cocteau written by Lydia Crowson and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 1978 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cocteau Diaries written by Jean Cocteau and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1988-10-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of diaries reveals the private life of Jean Cocteau--poet, playwright, novelist, filmmaker, artist, and writer for the ballet and opera--and his relationships with such companions as Colette, Matisse, Sartre, Picasso, Genet, and Proust
Download or read book The White Paper written by Jean Cocteau and published by Disruptive Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-18 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocteau's short work, published anonymously in 1928 by the author (who never admitted to writing it; just providing some pictures), was translated by Austryn Wainhouse for Olympia in the early '50s. This is the tale of a young man coming to grips with his own sexuality, seeking shelter in the church, and finally, in the land of Cambaceres, coming to terms with it.
Download or read book Cocteau s World an Anthology of Writings Translated from the French Edited and Introduced by Margaret Crosland written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
