The World of Jean Cocteau by James Jackson - 9783032202987

The World of Jean CocteauBeautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitable\nAuthor(s): James Jackson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783032202987, 978-3032202987\nSynopsis\n[url] Auden once remarked that the complete uvreof Jean Cocteau could fill a warehouse. Over the course of his life, Cocteau produced an impressive range of works, ranging from poems, plays, films, and novels to drawings, sculptures, stained-glass windows, and interior design. His mind was brimful of imagination and wonder, drawing on tropes, themes, and iconography from Greek myth and tragedy to medieval folklore, childrens fairy tales, and the experimental movements of the Interwar Years, while always channelling into his work an idiosyncratic desire to express the beauty of poetic experience. The World of Jean Cocteau: Beautiful, Elusive, Uninhabitableargues, with reference to a comprehensive body of his work and anecdotes of his life, that the w.