In 1980 an exhibition of the "Illuminated Manuscripts" of Rene Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illustrations by twenty-eight artists of an array of Char's hand-written poems. Char's artistic associations, spanning seven decades, remain remarkable today. Not only was he amply illustrated by those he called his "substantial allies"; the dedicatory poems and prose pieces they inspired, written with revelatory flair, constitute a unique corpus in the history of art and poetic enterprise.This book brings together an exemplary number of the artists...
In 1980 an exhibition of the "Illuminated Manuscripts" of Rene Char held in Paris took the artistic and literary worlds by surprise. It featured illus...
Rosemary, who was raised in poverty, and her husband, who left school without qualifications, became the most generous philanthropists in British history.
Rosemary, who was raised in poverty, and her husband, who left school without qualifications, became the most generous philanthropists in British hist...
