Max Ernst

A critical treatment that traces Ernst's life and career within the context of his time and assesses his involvement with, and influence on, the Surrealist movement

Gimferrer, Pere

Arts & Photography

Rizzoli

Shows a variety of Magritte's paintings and discusses his use of surrealism and dream imagery

Magritte

Individual Artists

Surveys the style, inspiration, and works of the metaphysical painter De Chirico

De Chirico

Toulouse-Lautrec (20th Century Artists)

Biographies & Memoirs

Dust Jacket in Near Fine condition. #1322 of 2850 copies. Cardboard slipcase is torn along edge.

Roots of Miro

'[Pere Gimferrer] is a great poet and also knows everything.'-Roberto Bolaño Scion of an artistic dynasty, inventor, photographer, and costumier of genius, Mariano Fortuny was a touchstone of the Belle Époque: he built stages for Wagner, designed dresses for Sarah Bernhardt, and was a crucial inspiration for Proust's philosophy of memory. The list of his illustrious acquaintances ranges from D'Annunzio to Chaplin, from Caruso to Isadora Duncan, and in this, the first novel by Spain's Pere Gimferrer to be translated into English, they gather like actors on a stage, in Venetian palaces, in Parisian apartments, and in the village squares of the small towns of Catalonia, forming an historical tableau of the vigor and dissipation of Europe's artistic demimonde from the end of the Third Republic to the outbreak of the second World War. Employing the unmatched lyrical inventiveness and range that have made him recognized as Spain's most distinguished poet, Gimferrer has composed a paean to vanished artistic grandeur, suggesting the fragility of the line dividing the real from the imagined: Whatever the eye can see dissolves into a tapestry of prose woven of light and shadow. Proust's description of Fortuny's fabrics applies equally to Gimferrer's words: 'faithfully antique but markedly original, [they] brought before the eye like a stage décor, and with an even greater evocative power since the décor was left to the imagination, a Venice saturated with oriental splendor . . .'

Fortuny

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Verba Mundi

A bilingual edition of poems by the award-winning Spanish poet. Pere Gimferrer has been writing poetry for more than fifty years in several languages, restoring and expanding upon avant-garde tendencies in poetry that had been abandoned in Spain after the Spanish Civil War. Of his second book, The Sea Aflame, Octavio Paz wrote: "Our language will be, already is, larger by one poet." In 1970, with Mirrors, Gimferrer turned to Catalan, his mother tongue. Since then, he has won major Catalan and Spanish prizes for his work, which, along with poetry, includes writings on film and art history, translations, and novels. This bilingual volume, the first to draw on all phases of Gimferrer's career as a poet--from Message from the Tetrarch, published when he was eighteen, to selections from his recent verses in Italian--is an ideal introduction to a writer who, in the words of Roberto Bolaño, "is a great poet and also knows everything."

Pere Gimferrer (Nyrb Poets)

Dramas & Plays

NYRB Poets

<div>Longlisted for the Best Translated Book Award 2020. Spain's greatest living poet, Pere Gimferrer (b.1945) has written more than thirty books spanning verse, fiction, essay, and criticism. His earliest writings appeared in Spanish. In 1970 he began publishing in Catalan, and has alternated between the two languages since (with occasional forays into French and Italian). The present collection, the first book-length publication of Gimferrer's Catalan poetry in English, brings together work from all phases of his career. His poetry is a marvel of syncretism: Billie Holiday, the medieval polymath Ramon Llull, Ezra Pound, and the artist Tàpies all appear in his pages. His style draws equally on modernism, on Galician-Portuguese love lyrics, on Góngora and on the Valencian metaphysical poet Ausiàs March. Rounding out the volume is a selection from the Dietari, an artistic diary that outlines his poetics and his sense of the artist's vocation through a series of meditations on Casanova, Octavio Paz and others.</div>

The Catalan Poems

Poetry

Carcanet Press Ltd.

Softcover; Fine; 145 illustrations including 120 in full colour . A very fine unmarked, uncreased bright copy that includes his posters of singers and theatrical entertainers, as well as numerous canavases, drawings and lithographs." 4to - over 9Â¾" - 12" tall

Toulouse Lautrec

wiley

Miro Catalan Universel

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Editions Hier Et Aujourdhui

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