Poetic illumination : Réne Char and his artist allies /
In 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of René Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Char's hand-written poems. Char's artistic associations, sp.
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Amsterdam ; New York :
Rodopi,
©2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Titles of Collections; René Char: 1907-1988; Introduction; Chapter I Surrealism and Beyond: Kandinsky, Dali, Corot, Courbet; Chapter II Picasso Reviewed: From Fact to Myth; Chapter III New Horizons: "Presenting Georges Braque"; Chapter IV The Fantastic Realism of Joan Miró; Chapter V Georges de La Tour: Artist of Light and Shade; Chapter VI The Magic of Lascaux; Chapter VII Nicolas de Staël: Seeker of Summits, Child of the Pole Star; Chapter VIII Vieira da Silva: A Web of Connections.
- Chapter IX The Last Collections: Vincent Van Gogh and Alexandre GalperineEpilogue The Illumination of the Poet; Dramatis Personæ; Selective Bibliography; Index.