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Jean Cocteau et Son Temps 1889-1963 vtg Gay French Artist LGBT History

Description: Jean Cocteau et Son Temps 1889-19631965 rare, scarce small release, out of print and loaded with arresting artworks. Uncommon gem. Publisher ‏ : ‎ Musee Jacquemart-Andre (January 1, 1965) by Julien Cain and Pierre Georgel (Author) Softcover in stiff, pictorial card covers with only light wear. Very clean inside and out. Binding firm. Text in French. Catalog entries by Pierre Georgel. 660 works in the exhibition. Illustrated in black & white. 8" high X 6" wide, 165 pages Publisher: Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris 1965, 1965 Used. Paperback, illustrated cover. Iconography in black. Comprehensive exhibition catalog, copious since more than 600 numbers are referenced, with an index. Though his body of work encompassed many different mediums, Cocteau insisted on calling himself a poet, classifying the great variety of his works – poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings, films – as "poésie", "poésie de roman", "poésie de thêatre", "poésie critique", "poésie graphique" and "poésie cinématographique". Private life ~ Jean Cocteau never hid his bisexuality. He was the author of the mildly homoerotic and semi-autobiographical Le Livre blanc (translated as The White Paper or The White Book), published anonymously in 1928. He never repudiated its authorship and a later edition of the novel features his foreword and drawings. The novel begins: As far back as I can remember, and even at an age when the mind does not yet influence the senses, I find traces of my love of boys. I have always loved the strong sex that I find legitimate to call the fair sex. My misfortunes came from a society that condemns the rare as a crime and forces us to reform our inclinations. Frequently his work, either literary (Les enfants terribles), graphic (erotic drawings, book illustration, paintings) or cinematographic (The Blood of a Poet, Orpheus, Beauty and the Beast), is pervaded with homosexual undertones, homoerotic imagery/symbolism or camp. In 1947 Paul Morihien published a clandestine edition of Querelle de Brest by Jean Genet, featuring 29 very explicit erotic drawings by Cocteau. In recent years several albums of Cocteau's homoerotica have been available to the general public. In the 1930s, Cocteau is rumoured to have had a very brief affair with Princess Natalie Paley, the daughter of a Romanov Grand Duke and herself a sometime actress, model, and former wife of couturier Lucien Lelong. Cocteau's longest-lasting relationships were with French actors Jean Marais and Édouard Dermit, whom Cocteau formally adopted. Cocteau cast Marais in The Eternal Return (1943), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Ruy Blas (1947), and Orpheus (1949). Death ~ Cocteau died of a heart attack at his château in Milly-la-Forêt, Essonne, France, on 11 October 1963 at the age of 74. His friend, French singer Édith Piaf, died the day before but that was announced on the morning of Cocteau's day of death; it has been said, in a story which is almost certainly apocryphal, that his heart failed upon hearing of Piaf's death. COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT, photographs books magazines added at a reduced rate We carry those that we ourselves like and believe in -- that we think will excite, enchant, and endure.We offer modern firsts, original photography, the arts, and gay erotica. You will also find a fine selection of signed copies, limited editions, and memorabilia because the goal is to deepen the pleasure of collecting. 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Jean Cocteau et Son Temps 1889-1963 vtg Gay French Artist LGBT History

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Binding: Softcover, Wraps

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Region: Europe

Author: Gerard Hastings

Topic: Art & Culture

Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom

Subject: Art & Photography

Year Printed: 2013

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