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Author Lancaster, Rosemary.

Title Poetic illumination : Réne Char and his artist allies / Rosemary Lancaster
Published Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (252 pages) : portrait
Series Faux titre ; 357
Faux titre ; 357.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English and French
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Subject Char, René, 1907-1988 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Char, René, 1907-1988 fast
Subject Poets, French -- 20th century -- Biography
Artists -- France
Art and literature -- France
POETRY -- Continental European.
Art and literature
Artists
Friendship
Poets, French
France
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789042032088
9042032081
1282916912
9781282916913
9786612916915
6612916915