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5 days ago · Jean Cocteau worked in a wide, some might call it wild, range of media and artistic strategies. He was a draftsperson, a designer, a muralist, a writer, a critic, a poet, a playwright, a filmmaker. The visual part of his multi-faceted oeuvre moved from the decorative to the more purely fine arts, from Symbolism to the surreal, from Dada to Deco, and beyond. Cocteau’s personalities and ...
3 days ago · From the June 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. ‘I am nothing – “another” speaks in me,’ declared Jean Cocteau in a Paris Review interview published in 1964, just a few months after his death. ‘The Juggler’s Revenge’, at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice, illustrates the accuracy of his self-assessment: his ...
1 day ago · Many of his works have been banned and censored all over the world. He is also the winner of the National Book Award and his works continue to be studied and taught in schools as well as at higher academic levels. 3. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, 2021. Source: Penguin Random House.
2 days ago · Boy with a Cat (Jean Bourgoint), Oil and Graphite on Canvas, 1926 (Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge) Wood met siblings Jean and Jeanne Bourgoint through his friendship with Cocteau. Jean was one of several attractive young men the poet kept in his inner circle, and he replaced Wood in the older man’s affections.
1 day ago · Bid now on Invaluable: Jean Cocteau (1889-1963): Portrait from STAIR on June 05, 2024, 10:00 AM EST.
20 hours ago · Igor Stravinsky. Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky [a] (17 June [ O.S. 5 June] 1882 – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century and a pivotal figure in modernist music .
2 days ago · Ann Leary is the New York Times bestselling author of a memoir and four previous novels, including The Good House, which was recently adapted as a film starring Sigourney Weaver and Kevin Kline.
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