Cocteau (catalogue) - CENTRE POMPIDOU

Published by CENTRE POMPIDOU (edition First Edition), 2003, softcover, French text, profusely illustrated, 416 pages, 27 cms x 19 cms x 2.6 cms, mark on front cover, otherwise condition: as new.

A catalogue and companion to the Jean Cocteau, sur le fil du siècle exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris from September 2002 to January 2004 and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from May to August 2004. The 17 essays and 472 illustrations celebrate the life and work of the multi-genre French artist 40 years after his death.

Jean Cocteau one of the great figures in contemporary pop culture - that inspired as well as being hated by some. Nevetheless Cocteau was a fashion statement or perhaps a dandy (that's for sure) in a world that was seeing the artist in a different light. Cocteau in many eay was old school. But old school with a personal vision that filtered through his drawings, scuptures, film, novel, and poetry. And he claimed to be a Poet... Cinema poet, theatre poet, and so forth. This book is a catalogue from the Pompidou arts Centre in Paris - and going by this catalogue it must have been a hell of a show!