Imaginary lives
Please sign in so that we can notify you about a reply
Annotation to the book "imaginary lives. Over 90 illustrations by Georges Barbier "Shvob M. Marseille Shvoba became one of the first works in the world in the genre of biographical science fiction. In them, the run, using known facts, presents the reader with a free interpretation of motives that move his characters. The text is given in the translation of L. D. Ryndina. The biography is preceded by the essay and artistic critic of Reme de Gurmon. The publication is decorated with color drawings and letters of the French artist Georges Barbier. “Imaginal life” is the most famous work of the French writer and poet Marseille Shvoba, in which he was one of the first to develop the genre of biographical fiction. His unusual prose influenced the symbolist writers, including Borges, who, as a result, released his first collection “The General History of Besata”. Oscar Wilde devoted the poem Sphinx. The future writer was born in 1867 in an educated Jewish family. Marseille"s father for ten years headed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Egypt and was friendly with Theophile Gauthier. The prose of Edgar Allan PO and Stevenson had a strong influence on the first literary experiments of the hill. Marseille was friendly with Anatole France, Maurice Meterlinka, Henri Barbus and other French writers. He became a journalist, transferred to the French Defoe and Shakespeare, wrote plays, essays, biographies and literary reviews. Several hundreds of his stories were collected together and published during the writer’s life in the collections of “Dream Gate” and “Psyche Lamp”. In Russia, the collected works of Marseille Shvoba were published in 1910. Illustrations for “imaginary lives” were carried out in 1929 by the wonderful French artist Georges Barbier. He was born in Nan. In the Paris National School of Extraordinary Arts, Jean-Paul Laurent became his mentor. From him, Barbier adopted the virtuoso accuracy of the picture and the exquisite restraint of the color scheme. The filigree of the lines and the veneration of the compositions of the Barbier bring him closer to Obri Berdslei and Leo Bakst. Barbier was a passionate fan of the art deco style. Like many adherents of this current in art, Barbier painted theatrical scenery and ornaments for wallpaper, he was engaged in the development of jewelry and costumes design. It was no accident that it was Barbier who attracted Diaghilev who came to Paris, as a result, the artist painted sketches for his famous ballets. A peculiar peak of Barbier’s work was his drawings for the famous French Fashion Almanac Falbalas et Fanfreluches, which was published from 1922 to 1925 in Paris. Barbier illustrated Baudler, Theophilus Gauthier, Alfred de Musset, Verlaine and many other authors. For about 20 years, he was the leader of the artists of the Paris School of Fine Arts, in the magazine VOG this group of aesthetes was called knights of bracelets. Barbier died in 1932 at the peak of his glory at the age of fifty, and was buried in his native nante
Author:
Author:Швоб М.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Children's Book
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Agriculture
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9603-0808-3
No reviews found