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Jean Cocteau

Author : Claude Arnaud
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300182163
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Claude Arnaud and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-27 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.

Letter to the Americans

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811231607
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Letter to the Americans written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Alexis de Tocqueville a century earlier, Jean Cocteau offers a powerful reminder to Americans of their own potential—and issues In 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, he compares and contrasts French and American culture: the different values they place on art, literature, liberty, psychology, and dreams. Cocteau sees the incredibly buoyant hopes in America’s promise, while at the same time warning of the many ills that the nation will have to confront—its hypocrisy, sexism, racism, and hegemonic aspirations—in order to realize this potential. Never before translated into English, Letter to the Americans remains as timely and urgent as when it was first published in France over seventy years ago.

Cocteau: a Biography

Author : Francis Steegmuller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (91 download)

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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:

Jean Cocteau Coloring Book

Author : Jean Cocteau Committee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551526409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (264 download)

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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.

The Difficulty of Being

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Melville House
ISBN 13 : 1612192904
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Difficulty of Being written by Jean Cocteau and published by Melville House. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on life and art from the legendary filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius. By the time he published The Difficulty of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced some of the most respected films and literature of the twentieth century, and had worked with the foremost artists of his time, including Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the inside account of those achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes about his childhood, about his development as an artist, and the peculiarity of the artist’s life, about his dreams, friendships, pain, and laughter. He probes his motivations and explains his philosophies, giving intimate details in soaring prose. And sprinkled throughout are anecdotes about the elite and historic people he associated with. Beyond illuminating a truly remarkable life, The Difficulty of Being is an inspiring homage to the belief that art matters.

Les Enfants Terribles

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099561379
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Les Enfants Terribles written by Jean Cocteau and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...

Jean Cocteau and His World

Author : Arthur King Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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:

Jean Cocteau

Author : James S. Williams
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861893543
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (935 download)

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Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by James S. Williams and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating Cocteau’s career and his fascinating personal life on equal terms, James Williams offers here a groundbreaking analysis that sets them both within highly revealing historical and artistic contexts.

Professional Secrets

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Professional Secrets written by Jean Cocteau and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Du Cinématographe

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780714529745
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Du Cinématographe 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.

Jean Cocteau

Author : Patrick Mauriès
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Jean Cocteau written by Patrick Mauriès and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtuoso of the word and the drawn line, Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) did not reduce art to an aesthetic, but raised living to the level of art. Influenced by forces as diverse as surrealism, psychoanalysis, cubism, Catholicism, and opium, Cocteau made his name in poetry, fiction, film, ballet, painting, theater, and opera. Patrick Mauriès gives us an intimate look into the life of this prince of poets revealing the unique magic that inhabits each of his creations. A wave of the magic wand, and books are written, films are made, plays are acted, and the pen draws.

My Contemporaries

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Peter Owen Modern Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780720612585
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book My Contemporaries written by Jean Cocteau and published by Peter Owen Modern Classics. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of Proust, Piaf, Colette, and a host of luminaries from Bohemian Paris For almost 50 years up until his death in 1963, Jean Cocteau held a unique place in French cultural life. The breadth of his artistic success bears witness to the astounding variety of his talents. In the fields of theater, cinema, art, ballet, and literature, Cocteau made many lifelong friends. Intimate portraits of some of the greatest artists of his age are included in this memorable memoir. Jean Cocteau was drawn to larger-than-life or seemingly unreal characters. He believed that their unreality was often the clue to the secrets of their personality. In descriptions of his contemporaries, Cocteau is able to illustrate everything that is accessible, sympathetic, memorable, durable, all-pervading, or dazzling about them. Ranging from the moving and atmospheric (the dying Proust in his cork-lined chamber) to the hilariously camp (Colette being carried from her apartment by sedan chair to have lunch across the road), it is in these portraits that the essence of his own work can be found. The portraits include Proust, Picasso, Piaf, Colette, Chaplin, and many more.

An Impersonation of Angels

Author : Frederick Brown
Publisher : Viking
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An Impersonation of Angels written by Frederick Brown and published by Viking. This book was released on 1968 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown's biography is the fullest, the most ambitious close-up of Le Petit Cocteau's seven decades to appear in English. Brown evidently scoured all libraries, periods, and sources (including Cocteau's correspondence and the various memoirs of his friends), giving the reader the incidents, events, and revelations of one of the foremost creative minds of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements; and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. An Impersonation of Angels is of unequivocal importance.

The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811200226
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Infernal Machine, and Other Plays written by Jean Cocteau and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four full-length plays by one of the greatest dramatists Europe has produced.

Cocteau

Author : Jean Cocteau
Publisher : Paul Holberton Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Cocteau written by Jean Cocteau and published by Paul Holberton Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominique Paini was chief curator of the Cocteau exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. This English edition makes available to English readers its important essays by seventeen French authors, including several who knew Cocteau personally.

The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau’s Art

Author : James Jackson
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031721632
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Poetic Idioms of Jean Cocteau’s Art written by James Jackson and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1410349721
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on 2016 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Jean Cocteau's "Indiscretions," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama For Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Drama For Students for all of your research needs.