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From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
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> Dear list,
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> For more parallels between Nabokov and Balthus, see Pierre Gault's
article
> « Between Latency and Knowledge : Figures of Preinitiation in Nabokov and
> Balthus », in Critical Angles : European Views of Contemporary American
> Literature, Marc Chénetier (ed.), Carbondale & Edwarsdville : Southern
> Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 125-144.
>
> Marie C. Bouchet
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Lolita-like images of half-dressed young girls led the Paris
> > art establishment .
> >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:30:07 -0800
> >
> >EDNOTE. As an addendum to this item I note that Ellen Pifer's new
_VLADIMIR
> >NABOKOV: A Case Book_ has a Balthus painting on its cover.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Sandy P. Klein
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Cc:
> >
> >
> >http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2003-01-01-balthus_x.htm
> >
> >Balthus paints a textured memoir
> >By Andrea Hoag, Special for USA TODAY
> >
> >A long-awaited memoir from Balthus, the painter known for his erotic
> >nymphets, has finally arrived. The French painter died in 2001 at age 92
> >after years of shunning interviews, but this posthumous book dispels the
> >mystery surrounding one of the 20th century's most controversial careers.
> >
> >Oddly, the sense of turmoil he brought to his disturbing canvases is
> >nowhere to be found in the transcendent beauty of his prose.
> >
> >Balthus published his first book of line drawings at 13 with a foreword
by
> >the poet Rilke, his mother's lover. It was a sign of things to come that
> >even early critics considered Balthus' unsentimental work "frightening."
> >
> > More about the book
> >
> > Vanished Splendors
> > By Balthus
> > Ecco, 237 pp., $29.95
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >When he arrived in Paris in 1924 at 16, Balthus made friends that
included
> >playwright Antonin Artaud and artists Georges Braque and Alberto
> >Giacometti. He bravely shunned contemporary art movements to pursue
figural
> >painting, considered old-fashioned by the avant-garde, and managed to
> >garner respect for his unique approach. Pablo Picasso once paid a call to
> >Balthus' sixth-floor studio ("You had to want to visit me," Balthus
> >explains) and told the young man: "You're the only painter of your
> >generation who interests me. The others try to make Picassos. You never
> >do."
> >
> >One-man shows were quick to follow, and again viewers were disturbed.
> >
> >Lolita-like images of half-dressed young girls led the Paris art
> >establishment to shun Balthus. Though he never visited the USA, even when
> >the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of his work,
> >American patrons were most eager to purchase his paintings.
> >
> >The artist's unusual memoir is a collection of two-page chapters with
> >disorganized musings, but the memories are so delightfully written it is
> >easy to ignore this lack of uniformity. Vignettes are woven throughout
the
> >text about his army days in Morocco, two marriages and even his many
grand
> >estates. The recollections are rendered in prose too rich and varied to
be
> >devoured in one sitting.
> >
> >Balthus pauses only briefly to defend his reputation, laughably calling
his
> >controversial adolescent models "angels."
> >
> >Also fascinating are Balthus' revelations about his work as longtime
> >director of the French Academy in Rome. He spent his tenure refurbishing
> >the tired Villa Medici and arguing with its frequent guests. Balthus is
> >famous for causing French writer Marguerite Duras to abandon her opulent
> >guestroom after a clash of artistic values. She insisted that all art
must
> >be revolutionary, something the elder statesman scoffed at.
> >
> >Whether radical or just eerie, the work of Balthus has come to be seen as
> >an important part of the 20th-century canon. Vanished Splendors will only
> >heighten the uneasy appeal of this long-enigmatic painter.
> >
> >
> >
>
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> > Find this article at:
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> >
> >
> >
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From: "marie bouchet" <mmariebouchet@hotmail.com>
> ---------------- Message requiring your approval (121
lines) ------------------
>
> Dear list,
>
> For more parallels between Nabokov and Balthus, see Pierre Gault's
article
> « Between Latency and Knowledge : Figures of Preinitiation in Nabokov and
> Balthus », in Critical Angles : European Views of Contemporary American
> Literature, Marc Chénetier (ed.), Carbondale & Edwarsdville : Southern
> Illinois University Press, 1986, pp. 125-144.
>
> Marie C. Bouchet
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >From: "D. Barton Johnson" <chtodel@cox.net>
> >Reply-To: Vladimir Nabokov Forum <NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU>
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Subject: Fw: Lolita-like images of half-dressed young girls led the Paris
> > art establishment .
> >Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 18:30:07 -0800
> >
> >EDNOTE. As an addendum to this item I note that Ellen Pifer's new
_VLADIMIR
> >NABOKOV: A Case Book_ has a Balthus painting on its cover.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Sandy P. Klein
> >To: NABOKV-L@LISTSERV.UCSB.EDU
> >Cc:
> >
> >
> >http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2003-01-01-balthus_x.htm
> >
> >Balthus paints a textured memoir
> >By Andrea Hoag, Special for USA TODAY
> >
> >A long-awaited memoir from Balthus, the painter known for his erotic
> >nymphets, has finally arrived. The French painter died in 2001 at age 92
> >after years of shunning interviews, but this posthumous book dispels the
> >mystery surrounding one of the 20th century's most controversial careers.
> >
> >Oddly, the sense of turmoil he brought to his disturbing canvases is
> >nowhere to be found in the transcendent beauty of his prose.
> >
> >Balthus published his first book of line drawings at 13 with a foreword
by
> >the poet Rilke, his mother's lover. It was a sign of things to come that
> >even early critics considered Balthus' unsentimental work "frightening."
> >
> > More about the book
> >
> > Vanished Splendors
> > By Balthus
> > Ecco, 237 pp., $29.95
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >When he arrived in Paris in 1924 at 16, Balthus made friends that
included
> >playwright Antonin Artaud and artists Georges Braque and Alberto
> >Giacometti. He bravely shunned contemporary art movements to pursue
figural
> >painting, considered old-fashioned by the avant-garde, and managed to
> >garner respect for his unique approach. Pablo Picasso once paid a call to
> >Balthus' sixth-floor studio ("You had to want to visit me," Balthus
> >explains) and told the young man: "You're the only painter of your
> >generation who interests me. The others try to make Picassos. You never
> >do."
> >
> >One-man shows were quick to follow, and again viewers were disturbed.
> >
> >Lolita-like images of half-dressed young girls led the Paris art
> >establishment to shun Balthus. Though he never visited the USA, even when
> >the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibited a retrospective of his work,
> >American patrons were most eager to purchase his paintings.
> >
> >The artist's unusual memoir is a collection of two-page chapters with
> >disorganized musings, but the memories are so delightfully written it is
> >easy to ignore this lack of uniformity. Vignettes are woven throughout
the
> >text about his army days in Morocco, two marriages and even his many
grand
> >estates. The recollections are rendered in prose too rich and varied to
be
> >devoured in one sitting.
> >
> >Balthus pauses only briefly to defend his reputation, laughably calling
his
> >controversial adolescent models "angels."
> >
> >Also fascinating are Balthus' revelations about his work as longtime
> >director of the French Academy in Rome. He spent his tenure refurbishing
> >the tired Villa Medici and arguing with its frequent guests. Balthus is
> >famous for causing French writer Marguerite Duras to abandon her opulent
> >guestroom after a clash of artistic values. She insisted that all art
must
> >be revolutionary, something the elder statesman scoffed at.
> >
> >Whether radical or just eerie, the work of Balthus has come to be seen as
> >an important part of the 20th-century canon. Vanished Splendors will only
> >heighten the uneasy appeal of this long-enigmatic painter.
> >
> >
> >
>
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> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Find this article at:
> >
http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2003-01-01-balthus_x.htm
> >
> >
> >
>
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