Research Catalog

Title

Cocteau / [translated from the French by Trista Selous].

Author

Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963

Publication

London : P. Holberton ; [Seattle] : Distributed in the United States and Canada by University of Washington Press, 2003.

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Additional Authors

• Païni, Dominique
• Nemer, François
• Loth, V.
• Centre Georges Pompidou
• Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

Description

413 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.; 27 cm.

Alternative Title

• Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle
• Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle
• Jean Cocteau sur le fil du siècle.

Subject

• Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 > Exhibitions
• Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963 > Criticism and interpretation
• 1900-1999
• Artists > France > 20th century > Criticism and interpretation

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Exhibition catalogs

Note

• "This is the English-language version of the catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle' at the Centre Pompidou, Paris 25 September 2003-5 January 2004 and at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 6 May-29 August 2004"--Facing t.p.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Forewords / Bruno Racine [and others] -- Lost and found / Dominique Paini -- The Cocteau image / François Nemer -- Portrait of the artist in Ariadne's thread / Isabelle Monod-Fontaine -- The ghosts of Villefranche / Bernard Minoret -- To the Belle Epoque. Most affectionately / Michel Deguy -- Orphic self-portraits / Laurence Schifano -- 'The draper farce': a phantom sequence of La Belle et la Bête / Francis Ramirez, Christian Rollot -- 'Coctalk' (La Voix humaine) / Marie Anne Guerin -- Family jewels. The influence of Jean Cocteau on experimental cinema / Yann Beauvais -- When Cocteau was the president of a ciné-club: Objectif 49 and the Festival of Film maudit / Jean Charles Tachella -- Jean Cocteau's dadaism / Marc Dachy -- Jean Cocteau and Littérature magazine (1919-23) / Eléonore Antzenberger -- The "French French" music of Jean Cocteau / Ornella Volta -- Jean Cocteau's hands / Pierre Caizergues -- A conversation / Jean Babilée -- Jean Cocteau, poet of the substantial / Noël Simsolo -- A life assessed / Claude Arnaud.

ISBN

190347017X

OCLC

• 56567879
• SCSB-10652504

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library