Cinema, artwork, literature… A choice of lovely books to supply | EUROtoday

It’sis the time to please and deal with your self by putting these so-called lovely books, which some publishers concentrate on, below the tree. They are already in bookstores, we now have chosen them for you, in all areas, for lovers of literature, the humanities, the ocean or the mountains, for followers of fantasy, and kids, from 9 years previous. Here they’re of all sizes, and for all budgets, from the book-exhibition of African artwork to greater than 1000 €, on the Louvre in pop-up for lower than 25 €. Enjoy magnificence and Merry Christmas!

Your information? Alexandre Dumas!

“The Gallery of Florence told by Alexandre Dumas”, established version, offered and annotated by Cristina Farnetti and Jocelyn Fiorina (Éditions du Chêne, 7 volumes, 1,900 p., 700 photographs, €149).

Who nonetheless knew that such a treasure existed? In 1840, the person who was not but the writer of Three Musketeers is in Florence to supply a information of unequaled scope to the Uffizi Museum. Here it’s printed for the primary time, and the enterprise is as huge because the novelist’s ogre urge for food. The writer of Great Cooking Dictionary was simply as hungry for artwork! In this assortment of seven volumes, of which there have been only some copies left on the earth, the good Dumas feedback on 200 masterpieces from the well-known gallery (notably The Birth of Venusdescribed… in verse!) and provides a historical past of the Medici in addition to that of portray. The authentic engravings are, furthermore, now enriched with all of the works photographed in colour, with the collaboration of the Uffizi Museum… Magnificent! CO-D.-B.

Audrey Tautou within the mirror

“Superfacial”, by Audrey Tautou (Fisheye Éditions, 232 p., €38).

As a toddler, she dreamed of turning into a photojournalist. Audrey Tautou is in the present day the formidable actress we all know, however she has by no means stopped photographing. The journalists who interview him. Anonymous folks, captured from behind, throughout his travels. And his personal individual, staged in playful self-portraits which query his synthetic standing as a star as if in a burst of laughter. A group of those images, to which private texts and some letters from admirers have been added, this very joyful album is sort of a wink, within the mirror, from the artist to herself. VM

African artwork on the size of a continent

“African Arts.The Impossible Collection”, textual content by Bérénice Geoffroy-Schneiter (Assouline, 232 p., greater than 150 illustrations, €1,200).

Is this really a gorgeous guide, this splendid stock of main items of African artwork, Dogon statuettes, Kota masks, textiles from Zaire, bronzes from Nigeria, coming from the best collections, public (Quai Branly, MET) and personal ( Barbier-Mueller)? Or the catalog of a digital exhibition of masterpieces that we will supply ourselves to ponder only for ourselves? The selection of an knowledgeable explores, on this iconic work in twelve chapters, the creation of a whole continent which makes its entry into Assouline’s Ultimate assortment. A manifesto of common magnificence. V.M.L.M.

By the very hand of Apollinaire

“Calligrams”, by Guillaume Apollinaire (Éditions des Saints Pères, 224 p., €200; particular launch value, €180).

After Alcoholsright here within the Manuscrit assortment is Apollinaire’s final assortment printed throughout his lifetime, reproducing for the primary time the mannequin saved on the Jacques-Doucet library, which was used within the version of Mercure de France in 1918. These Poems of Peace and War – devoted “to the memory of the oldest of my comrades René Dalize who died on the field of honor”, ​​writes Apollinaire – present a robust emotion in each substance and kind, to which the poet, as we see on every web page, had a robust equal consideration. V.M.L.M.

Ski or dream of it

“Winter sports posters”, by Jean-Daniel Clerc and Jean-Charles Giroud (Citadelles and Mazenod, 216 p., €77).

Bright, creative, dynamic, they compete in inspiration to draw the general public of the top of the nineteenth century.^e century, the place winter sports activities turned modern. From skaters to skiers, from railways to ski boots, together with sledding and sunscreen, all the things is nice to attract for well-known graphic designers like Jules Chéret or Carl Moos, who talentedly extol the exhilaration of snow-capped peaks . The worldwide choice of this formidable album provides an thrilling publicity panorama. We’re leaving instantly! V.M.L.M.

Dolan rewinds

“A friendship on film”, by Shayne Laverdière and Xavier Dolan (mk2 and Sons of Manual, 480 p., €80).

It was ten years in the past. In Cannes, the younger Quebec director shakes up the Croisette with a fifth movie of explosive tenderness, which tells of the despair of a single mom within the face of her son’s behavioral issues. It’s on the set of Mommy that Xavier Dolan and the genius photographer Shayne Laverdière will develop into mates. Made up of a whole lot of never-before-seen photographs from the set and prefaced by Jane Campion, this magnificent guide provides us a behind-the-scenes have a look at the movie with its million entries. We discover Anne Dorval and Suzanne Clément, the filmmaker’s muses, and all through the pages, we let ourselves be gained over by the candy sepia nostalgia of the environment of Montreal. And by a livid want to see once more Mommy… V.G.

Horror and bible paper

“H.P. Lovecraft. Stories”, introduction by Laurent Folliot (La Pléiade, 1,408 p., €69 till December 31, 2024, then €76).

Cthulhu, Nyarlathotep, Azathoth, Yog-Sothoth: Lovecraftian monsters hang-out our imaginations as a lot as modern tradition. Michel Houellebecq and Joyce Carol Oates have made a fetish of this nice grasp of terror. But publishing mistreated it, decreasing it to the rank of Z collection throughout his lifetime, then making it accessible to learn by grouping his works by theme. Here he’s coming into, supreme coronation, in La Pléiade, which publishes his tales in chronological order, in impeccable new translations. This disciple of Poe opens a brand new dimension in horror literature and addresses, lastly, a brand new viewers. E. L.

Frazetta, hero of Heroic Fantasy

“The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta”, by Dan Nadel, Zak Smith, Dian Hanson (Taschen, 480 p., €25).

More popular culture, you die: small however tremendous robust, The Fantastic Worlds of Frank Frazetta propels us into the galaxy of this nice artist born in 1928 in Brooklyn, recognized for his legendary representations of Conan, Tarzan, Vampirella… Available in English, French, German and crammed along with his breathtaking colourful warrior canvases celebrating men and women with sculpted our bodies, the work explores the unimaginable number of a multimedia profession spanning half a century, additionally concerning horror and SF. Essential. P.G.

Nine lives, from 9 years previous

“The 9 Extraordinary Lives of Princess Gaya”, collective, illustrated by Régis Lejonc (Little Urban, 120 p., €29.90).

They say that cats have 9 lives: the identical goes for Princess Gaya, survivor of a darkish pact that her mom made with demise herself. Moved by the kid, she provides him not one, however 9 existences, that are instructed to us by not one, however ten authors. From Bavaria to China by way of Mexico and Greece, his adventures are energetic, unusual, transferring, and the illustrations that accompany them, signed Régis Lejonc, are additionally a journey, to start from 9 years previous. E. L.

The Louvre in your arms

“Louvre pop up”, by Dominique Ehrhard and Anne-Florence Lemasson (Les Grandes Personnes, 34 p., €24.90).

We open this small guide (15 cm) and Victory of SamothraceTHE Sarcophagus of the spouses, The Mona Lisa rise and unfold, in quantity, in the course of the pages: the Louvre in your arms! Dedicated to the main works of the biggest museum on the earth, this meticulous and charming micro pop-up will delight all followers of animated books. VM

A literary street journey

“America. Writers in majesty”, by Jean-Luc Bertini and Alexandre Thiltges (Albin Michel, 335 p., €39.90).

“We would happily say that America today resembles the Disunited States of America more than ever,” write in the foreword to this very beautiful book the photographer Jean-Luc Bertini and the author, specialist of American literature, Alexandre Thiltges, who published the second volume of their America of Writers. Russell Banks, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, Siri Hustvedt, Ron Rash… Through fascinating interviews punctuated with superb photographs, thirty American writers evoke their roots, their journey and their astonishment in the face of a country that never stops fragment, but remains eminently fascinating. E. L.

Immediate boarding

“Liners 1913-1942. A transatlantic aesthetic”, below the course of Adeline Collange-Perugi and Sophie Lévy (In Fine, 280 p., €32).

And to assume that we did not have the prospect to expertise that! The floating paradox that was a liner, each cutting-edge equipment devoted to hurry and an expensive setting for savoring the passing of time, a car crusing on the ocean and a temple of probably the most earthly elegances, a strong incarnation of the variations of sophistication and place transferring making their encounters potential. Accompanying the exhibition of the identical title co-produced by the Nantes Museum of Arts and the MuMa in Le Havre, this catalog, as graphic as it’s transferring, transports the reader by way of pages bringing collectively valuable archives, works of design, work, images. A hymn to a time when modernity was additionally a matter of style. C. O.-D.-B.

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“Vertigo of surrealism”, by Yves Peyré (Gallimard, 336 p., €179).

THE Manifesto of surrealism is 100 years previous. For the event, the author, poet and artwork critic Yves Peyré has designed a powerful guide combining two types of magnificence: that of photographs and that of phrases. They marry over the double pages of this emotional journey to the heights of want and desires the place the good texts of the motion (by Éluard, Breton, Desnos or Aragon) dialogue with its emblematic artworks (Chirico, Magritte, Miro, Dali…), with out excluding discoveries, which additional will increase the enchantment of the work. In 1924, a “surrealist butterfly” proclaimed: “If you love Love, you will love Surrealism.” » This continues to be true in the present day. C. O.-D.-B.