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Poetic Illumination : Rene Char and his Artist Allies, Paperback / softback Book

Poetic Illumination : Rene Char and his Artist Allies Paperback / softback

Part of the Faux Titre series

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In 1980 an exhibition of the Illuminated Manuscripts of Rene 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 Miro; yet later, Vieira da Silva, Nicolas de Stael and Alexandre Galperine.

It also considers the poet's fascination with Corot, Courbet, La Tour, Van Gogh and the cave art of Lascaux.

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