La vie des arts (mode d'emploi). Gaule mais un livre de vie

mais un livre de vie

assistant to the Maestro and filmmaker himself

including Stéphane Mallarmé and Pierre Auguste Renoir

Centenary edition

La vie des arts (mode d'emploi). Gaule mais un livre de vieCan we grasp the arts in the plurality of their manifestations, their social and historical contexts, and their functions? This is the challenge of Jean Marie Schaeffer, who offers a series of spotlights on particularly revealing points in the life of the arts. Works of art are far from all "pleasant," whether in their content or their form. Many (and among the greatest) are cognitively and emotionally dissonant for those who are exposed to them. Yet,