Jean Cocteau : The History of a Poet's Age / / Wallace Fowlie

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910524864503321
• Autore: Fowlie Wallace <1908-1998.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Indiana University Press, 1966; Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, [1966]; ©[1966]
• ISBN: 0-253-04871-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource 181 pages) : : illustrations, portraits
• Soggetti: Film theory & criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: At the poet's death -- The poet's birth: 1889-1914 -- The poet's trial: 1914-1930 -- The poet's testament: 1930-1963 -- The poet as novelist -- The poet as dramatist -- The poet in his art -- The poet as film maker -- The poet as theorist and chronicler -- Picasso's role in Cocteau's art -- Epilogue: a meeting with Cocteau -- Chronology.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Astonish me!" was an early command of one of Jean Cocteau's mentors, Serge de Diaghileff. It was an admonition he apparently never forgot. Poems, paint- ings, plays, films, novels, criticism-he was creator and master of them all. In this volume Wallace Fowlie pre- sents a biographical and a historical-critical study of Cocteau in all his guises, together with background ma- terial on Cocteau's major works. There is also a chapter on the special relationship between Cocteau and Pablo Picasso, their friendship, and the ways in which they in- fluenced each other artistically. But more than a portrait or a critical study, the book achieves what its subtitle implies: it is a study of a poet's age. Cocteau's personal world was inhabited by Apollinaire, Diaghileff, Stravin- sky, Maritain, and Genet, as well as such figures as Mistinguette, the Parisian singer, and a former world champion boxer, Al Brown. Mr. Fowlie's work will be treasured not only by devotees of Jean Cocteau but by all who are fascinated by the turbulent brilliance of ; Paris during Cocteau's lifetime.