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Un château sur la lune
Le regard d'un fils adopté sur sa mère, le récit poignant de la vie d'une des grandes figures qui a marqué le XXème siècle par son talent, son dévouement et son engagement. Sous les paillettes et les costumes extravagants de cette star de la chanson et de la danse, se cache une femme de cœur et de courage à la destinée hors du commun. Résistante pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, engagée dans la lutte contre le racisme, Joséphine Baker est de tous les combats en faveur de l'égalité et de la justice entre les hommes. Au faîte de sa carrière, elle décide avec son mari Jo Bouillon d'adopter des enfants de nationalité et de religion différentes pour prouver au monde que la f...
Critical Readings in Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
The essays in this wide-ranging, beautifully illustrated volume capture the theoretical range and scholarly rigor of recent criticism that has fundamentally transformed the study of French Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Readers are invited to consider the profound issues and penetrating questions that lie beneath this perennially popular body of work as the contributors examine the art world of late nineteenth-century France—including detailed looks at Monet, Manet, Pissarro, Degas, Cézanne, Morisot, Seurat, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. The authors offer fascinating new perspectives, placing the artworks from this period in wider social and historical contexts. They explore these pai...
Josephine
"There was Cleopatra. Later there was Josephine Baker. The French called her La Baker, the epitome of all that was exciting from the 1930s on. The toast of two continents, she could be found at night, dressed in her fabulously elaborate gowns and headdresses or just her famous banana costume, receiving standing ovations at the Folies Bergere. By day, tout Paris greeted her as she strolled down the Champs Elysées in a Dior frock, leading her pet leopard with its jeweled collar. Josephine Baker had come a long way from the black ghetto in St. Louis where she was born. Here is a dramatic story, heartwarming, horrifying, and funny by turns. Legends about her life and loves were legion, then and...
Josephine
This revelatory biography of Folies Bergere dancer Josephine Baker (1906-1975) is a study of struggle, truimph and tragedy.
Conversations with Cezanne
This book gathers the commentary of people who knew the painter Paul Cezanne, especially in his later years. Now seen as one of the most influential of modern painters, in his 40s he returned to his village of Aix-en-Provence where, he worked in near obscurity and with great dedication until his death in 1906.
The Brush and the Pen
French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840–1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as “the painter-writer,” he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarmé for his subject matter. And yet he concluded that visual art has nothing to do with literature. Examining this apparent contradiction, The Brush and the Pen transforms the way we understand Redon’s career and brings to life the interaction between writers and artists in fin-de-siècle Paris. Dario Gamboni tracks Redon’s evolution from collaboration with the writers of symbolism and decadence to a defense of the autonomy of the visual arts. He argues that Redon’s conversion was the symptom of a mounting crisis in the relationship between artists and writers, provoked at the turn of the century by the growing power of art criticism that foreshadowed the modernist separation of the arts into intractable fields. In addition to being a distinguished study of this provocative artist, The Brush and the Pen offers a critical reappraisal of the interaction of art, writing, criticism, and government institutions in late nineteenth-century France.
Intercultural Explorations
Divided into four sections: Asian-Western Intersections, Intercultural Memory, Intercultural Perspectives on Women, Genre Studies, and The Intercultural Arts, these essays from diverse hands and multiple perspectives illuminate the intersections, the cross-sections, and the synergies that characterize significant literary texts and artistic productions. Individually, they exemplify the insights available in an intercultural perspective; together they remind us that no culture - even those that claim to be pure or those that might be regarded as isolated - has escaped the influence of external influences. As a result, this volume is doubly synergistic: one, because it focuses on intercultural phenomena within a specific culture, and two, because they represent multiple perspectives on these phenomena.
