Bernard Buffet : the invention of the modern mega-artist
Foulkes, Nick2016
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Nicholas Foulkes tells the remarkable story of a French figurative painter who tasted unprecedented critical and commercial success at an age when his contemporaries were still at art school. Then, with almost equal suddenness the fruits of fame turned sour and he found himself an outcast. Scarred with the contagion of immense commercial success no leper was more untouchable. As the first of the so-called Fabulous Five (Francoise Sagan, Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot and Yves Saint Laurent) he was a leader of the cultural revolution that seemed to forge a new France from the shattered remains of a discredited and demoralized country. Rich in incident Buffet's remarkable story of bisexual love affairs, betrayal, vendettas lasting half a century, shattered reputations, alcoholism, and drug abuse, is played out against the backdrop of the beau monde of the 1950s and 1960s.
Main title:
Bernard Buffet : the invention of the modern mega-artist / Nicholas Foulkes.
Author:
Foulkes, Nick, author
Imprint:
London : Preface Publishing, 2016.
Collation:
483 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781848094444 (hbk)
Dewey class:
759.4B BUFB
Language:
English
BRN:
1266901
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