Poetic illumination [[electronic resource] ] : René Char and his artist allies / / Rosemary Lancaster

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459659003321
• Autore: Lancaster Rosemary
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2010
• ISBN: 1-282-91691-2; 9786612916915; 90-420-3208-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Collana: Faux titre ; ; 357
• Disciplina: 841.912
• Soggetti: Arts and literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Titles of Collections -- René Char: 1907–1988 -- Introduction -- Surrealism and Beyond: Kandinsky, Dali, Corot, Courbet -- Picasso Reviewed: from Fact to Myth -- New Horizons: “Presenting Georges Braque” -- The Fantastic Realism of Joan Miró -- Georges de La Tour: Artist of Light and Shade -- The Magic of Lascaux -- Nicolas de Staël: Seeker of Summits, Child of the Pole Star -- Vieira da Silva: A Web of Connections -- The Last Collections: Vincent Van Gogh and Alexandre Galperine -- The Illumination of the Poet -- Dramatis Personæ -- Selective Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, spanning seven decades, remain remarkable today. Not only was he amply illustrated by those he called his “substantial allies”; the dedicatory poems and prose pieces they inspired, written with revelatory flair, constitute a unique corpus in the history of art and poetic enterprise. This book brings together an exemplary number of the artists Char prized over time: Dali and Kandinsky in the early years; later, Picasso, Braque and Miró; yet later, ; Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Staël and Alexandre Galperine. It also considers the poet’s fascination with Corot, Courbet, La Tour, Van Gogh and the cave art of Lascaux.