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* Read * Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics) by Jean Renoir, Randolph Weaver, Dorothy Weaver, Robert L. Herbert ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics) In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderfu
| Title | : | Renoir, My Father (New York Review Books Classics) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (827 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0940322773 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke College. Herbert is Andrew W. Among his publications is "Chicago's Dream, a World's Treasure: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1893-1993 "(1993). Among his publications are "Seurat's Drawings "(1962), "Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society "(1988), "Monet on the No
In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and, in the words of the distinguished art historian John Golding, it "remains the best account of Renoir, and, furthermore, among the most beautiful and moving biographies we have." Includes 12 pages of color plates and 18 pages of black and white images.
Language Notes Text: English (translation) Original Language: French
A JOY, THANK YOU A Customer This book has given me tremendous insight into the Renoir family as well as the birth of Impressionism. The previous reviewer said it better than I--it really IS like sitting down and having a conversation with Renoir, himself, and I, too find a new ge. An intelligent, perceptive, humane memoir Shalom Freedman The great film director Jean Renoir tells the story of the life of one of the great masters of modern painting, his father Auguste Pierre Renoir. He does this in an intelligent, perceptive and humane way. He was close to his father , had many long inti. A Vivid Portait A Customer Renoir was far more than one of the world's greatest artists. He was an adventurer, a family man, a man who held interesting views on just about every subject under the sun, and finally, in his later years, a martyr to life. Although this book was writ
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