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Title: Renoir, My Father. by Jean, Renoir ISBN: 0-316-74013-6 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: January, 1962 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $10.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Vivid Portait
Comment: 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 written by Renoir's middle son, Jean, it is as vibrant and alive as if Renoir, himself, had just written the words in his own hand. Through this book we learn how the Renoir family left its roots in Limoges and moved to Paris. We read of Renoir's early years as a painter of porcelain and how and why he became an artist, more specifically, an Impressionist. We learn of Renoir's marriage to Aline Charigot of Essoyes, the birth of his three sons and his move to the south of France. Some of the most interesting sections of the book deal with Renoir's feelings about the effect of light on a painting and why he needed to paint in a "natural" setting. Also, most interesting are the chapters on the birth of Impressionism and Renoir's relationships with the other artists of the time, such as Monet, Manet, Sisley and Cezanne, just to name a few. Lovingly and charmingly written, this book truly brings Renoir to life and makes him accessible to all. Absolutely a must for anyone with even a passing interest in art or artists!
Rating: 5
Summary: Charming
Comment: This book presents a very touching portrait of Auguste Renoir. The recollections of his son, Jean, are wonderful to read and bring the artist alive, both as a man and as an aritst. And if you read the book, you will see why "The Cork" preferred never to be referred to as an "artist," a title he certainly deserves!
Rating: 5
Summary: Therapy
Comment: We adopted "Renoir, My Father" as bedside reading while my wife was recovering from hip surgery, and (aside, perhaps, from "Goodnight, Moon,") I can't imagine better therapy. This is odd, in a way: Claude was an old man (and in pain) when Jean got to know him, and Jean was an old man when he finally brought his recollectios together. You might expect cranky, but nothing of the sort: it's a book full of sunny afterglow. Every parent would hope to be rememnbered so well.
The book might take a bit of getting used to: Jean has his own pace and his own way of telling his story. We did it in small doses and I'm not certain yet that I quite catch the rhythm. None of the rough edges have been smoothed off which, come to think of it, is just as Claude would have wanted: Jean speaks with his own voice. You have to listen well, but you know that the voice is nobody else's.
I suppose it helps to know a bit about the Impressionists to enjoy it all, but I can't say I know all that much, and I didn't feel impaired. Anyway, God bless Google: more than once, when Jean talked about a painting or a subject, I key-clicked my way to an image and completed (as it were) the picture.
Kudos also to NYRB (this time) for producing what it does not always produce: a finished physical specimen The paper feels like quality; the binding is sturdy, and there is a small but satisfying selection of pictures, both colored and black-and-white. There is even an index of sorts (I assume from the original translator) but it is patchy and incomplete. That last is a shortcoming, but forgivable in light of the book's other virtues. In the NYRB firmament, this is surely a star.
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Title: Renoir, Life, Art, and Letters by Barbara Ehrlich White ISBN: 0810980886 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: 15 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $34.98 |
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Title: My Life and My Films (Da Capo Paperback) by Jean Renoir ISBN: 0306804573 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: ...And Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven Santmyer ISBN: 0425174409 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 June, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Madame De Pompadour by Nancy Mitford, Amanda Foreman ISBN: 094032265X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 12 March, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics) by Georges Simenon, Marc Romano, Lawrence G. Blochman, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Goldtree Blochman ISBN: 159017044X Publisher: New York Review of Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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