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Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist by Nicholas Foulkes (Eng
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9780099594222
- Type
- NA
- Publication Name
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- ISBN
- 9780099594222
- Book Title
- Bernard Buffet : the Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist
- Item Length
- 7.7 in
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Art
- Topic
- Cultural Heritage, Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
- Item Width
- 4.7 in
- Item Weight
- 12.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday 4 October 1999, wracked with Parkinson's, and unable to paint because of a fall in which he had broken his wrist, Bernard Buffet calmly placed a plastic bag over his head, taped it tight around his neck and patiently waited the few minutes it took for death to arrive . Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist tells the remarkable story of a French figurative painter who tasted unprecedented critical and commercial success at an age when his contemporaries were still at art school. Then, with almost equal suddenness the fruits of fame turned sour and he found himself an outcast. Scarred with the contagion of immense commercial success no leper was more untouchable. He was the first artist of the television age and the jet age and his role in creating the idea of a post-war France is not to be underestimated. As the first of the so-called Fabulous Five (Francoise Sagan, Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot and Yves Saint Laurent) he was a leader of the cultural revolution that seemed to forge a new France from the shattered remains of a discredited and demoralized country. Rich in incident Buffet's remarkable story of bisexual love affairs, betrayal, vendettas lasting half a century, shattered reputations, alcoholism, and drug abuse, is played out against the backdrop of the beau monde of the 1950s and 1960s in locations as diverse as St Tropez, Japan, Paris, Dallas, St Petersburg and New York, before coming to its miserable conclusion alone in his studio.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Random House
ISBN-10
0099594226
ISBN-13
9780099594222
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234707756
Product Key Features
Book Title
Bernard Buffet : the Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Cultural Heritage, Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers, European
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7 in
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Width
4.7 in
Item Weight
12.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Nd553.B98
Reviews
"Foulkes is really good at, the thing with which this book is happily stuffed, is snappy storytelling . . . [The] years of excess provide the book with its most entertaining stretches." -- Sunday Times, "Splendidly unstuffy . . . first class." --the Times "A fascinating portrait of French cultural life in the second half of the 20th century, and of the contemporary art market, told with aplomb by Foulkes." -- Sunday Express "[Nicholas Foulkes] has a sure eye and ear for the nuances of hierarchy in both Euro-trash's sumps and the art world. His book is diligently researched, elegantly written and well-paced. He does period colour and local colour with discretion and seldom dramatizes incidents." -- Country Life, "Foulkes recounts, with skill and a sense of fun . . . especially good at evoking Fifties and Sixties French culture, with all the cigarette smoke, beautiful people and Paris-Match style is deserves." -- Esquire, "[A] thoroughly researched account of a life tinged with sadness, spent mostly in the studio, compulsively painting." -- Independent, "Whatever your opinion of the work of the prolific French expressionist Bernard Buffet, it's not hard to be seduced by the premise of Nick Foulkes' new biography, Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist ." -- Wallpaper*, "Foulkes has drowned himself in the subject and done some impressive research . . . He always has interesting things to say . . . bold and stylish." -- Spectator
Copyright Date
2017
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
759.4
Dewey Edition
23
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