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A study of the role of 'little magazines' and their contribution to the making of artistic modernism and the avant-garde across Europe, this volume is a major scholarly achievement of immense value to those interested in material culture of the 20th century.
Raymond Roussel, one of the most outlandishly compelling literary figures of modern times, died in mysterious circumstances at the age of fifty-six in 1933. The story Mark Ford tells about Roussel's life and work is at once captivating, heartbreaking, and almost beyond belief. Could even Proust or Nabokov have invented a character as strange and memorable as the exquisite dandy and graphomaniac this book brings to life? Roussel's poetry, novels, and plays influenced the work of many well-known writers and artists: Jean Cocteau found in him "genius in its pure state," while Salvador Dalí, who died with a copy of Roussel's Impressions d'Afrique on his bedside table, believed him to be one of ...
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"The long and illustrious career of Edouard Vuillard spans the fin-de-siecle and the first four decades of the twentieth century, during which time the French painter, printmaker, and photographer created an extraordinary body of work. This is the first volume to explore Vuillard's rich and varied career in its totality, presenting nearly 350 works that demonstrate the full range of his subject matter and reveal both the public and private sides of this quintessentially Parisian artist." "In a series of illustrated essays and catalogue entries, the authors explore Vuillard's complex and diverse artistic development, beginning with his academic training in Paris in the late 1880s and the inno...
Atlas Arkhive 8 Translated by Ian Monk The major biography of this extraordinary French poet, novelist, playwright, musician, homosexual, drug addict and probable suicide. Based on intensive research and access to a large hoard of Roussel's personal papers, diaries and photographs that only came to light in 1989, it fully details his bizarre life, his relationship with the surrealists and other avant-garde literary movements as well as such figures as Proust and Cocteau. Illustrated.
"Finalist, Award for Publishing/Publishing in Education; Saskatchewan Book Awards" Saskatchewan's most established writers come together with the province's brightest new voices to create a comprehensive anthology that showcases some of the finest literature in the world. Their talents are combined with works by nearly a dozen Saskatchewan visual artists, to create a definitive collection of the best Saskatchewan's writers and artists have to offer in terms of fiction, poetry, dramatic scripts, personal journalism, and art.
Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cézanne's painting. He shows how Cézanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the interaction of Cézanne and his critics, Shiff considers the problem of modern art in general. He locates the core of modernism in a dialectic of making (technique) and finding (originality). Ultimately, Shiff provides not only clarifying accounts of impressionism and symbolism but of a modern classicism as well.