Poetic Illumination

René Char and his Artist Allies
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-420-3207-1
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 357, 252 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

Reihe: Faux Titre

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.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Malerei: Gemälde
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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
Epilogue: The Illumination of the Poet
Dramatis Personæ
Selective Bibliography
Index