|
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
|
Buy Now
Bernard Buffet - The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist (Paperback)
Loot Price: R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save: R64
(16%)
|
|
|
Bernard Buffet - The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist (Paperback)
 (1 rating, sign in to rate)
List price R394
Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R64 (16%)
Expected to ship within 9 - 15 working days
|
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.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(1)
