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Renoir
JEAN RENOIR Hardcover: 416 pages
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Jean Renoir, the greatest of the great film directors, has written this book in much the same way as his father built up his paintings. Renoir would begin by quickly covering most of the canvas with strokes of colour, so that almost from the start, though shape and form remained indefinite, the canvas was a balanced whole; it was ony gradually that 'out of the mist the body of the model or the outlines of a landscape would emerge, as on a photographic plate immersed in a developing-bath.' So in this biography the son does not follow a strictly chronological sequence, but darts backwards and forwards over Renoir's long and prolific life, building up a warm and living picture in rapid brush strokes of anecdote, personal recollection and remembered conversations.
The picture that emerges is that of a good and loveable man who believed passionately in simplicity and filled his working life with a single-minded devotion to his art. The rest of Renoir's life is the story - unusual for a creative genius - of a wonderfully happy marriage.
The kaleidoscope of memories of this happy marriage, many of them bathed in the sunlight of the Midi and the South where the family spent most of their summers, forms the best part of this endearing story. Jean Renoir brings vividly to life a delightful family circle, which included himself and his two brothers, cousin Gabrielle, the girls who came to model for Renoir and became for a time part of that circle, Renoir's painter friends (especially Cezanne) and other friends and dealers who had first perceived his genius in his years of obscurity. And always at the centre of the circe, Renoir himself, prolific in his output, almost saintly in his goodness and simplicity, unorthodox in his views of the upringing of children, whimsically humorous, an artist of the highest distinction and a charming and very remarkable man.
Book is illustrated throughout with photos, many of which I for one certainly haven't seen before.
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JEAN RENOIR
Jean Renoir was born in 1894, the second of Pierre Auguste Renoir's three sons. He served in World War I as a cavalry officer, won the Croix de Guerre, was wounded in action, and finished the war as a pilot in the French Air Force. From ceramics and script-writing he turned to fim making, His version of Zola's Nana, his anti-war masterpiece La Grande Illusion (1937) and La Bete Humaine are among the cinema's finest treasures,
Images © Estate of Jean Renoir. All Rights Reserved.
Jan. 2017: 1 back in stock. 'Used - acceptable'. Dustjacket does have wear and marks (see photos as that is the one in stock).
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