The Man with the Easel of Horn: The Life and Works of Émile Friant

The Man with the Easel of Horn: The Life and Works of Émile Friant

From the author: "This novel can be seen as a companion work to Beaupré's recent publication on Van Gogh. Both are based on the historical and aesthetic facts surrounding the lives of the two artists, Van Gogh in Arles and Friant in the Alsace-Lorraine region, as well as Paris. The novel incorporates the following elements: Friant's many paintings well described, the Parisian ateliers, photography as a tool for painting, the Grand Salon, the literary life of Friant's times, the 1889 World's Fair, and the close relationship with the best French actor of his day, Bernard Coquelin, and the Franco-Prussian War as well as WWI. Moreover, as a novel, we encounter a seduction scene on the part of a young woman, a difficult friendship with an Italian man who tries to teach the artist the notion of sensuousness, the struggle with the concept of infinity on the part of the creative self in Émile Friant, and a professional relationship with the artist, John Singer Sargent."

Beaupré, Norman

Llumina Press

2010

English

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378

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