Renoir, My Father
$53.18
- Paperback
456 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
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 po…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940322776 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0940322773 |
| Author: | Jean Renoir, Robert L. Herbert |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 456 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 495g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 137mm |
| Series: | NYRB Classics S. |
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About The Author
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir (1894-1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born in Paris, grew up in the south of France, and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I. He directed his first film, La Fille de l’eau, in 1925 and followed it with many others, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939). In 1975, Jean Renoir received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema.
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature’s Workshop: Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of La Grande Jatte.
Randolph Weaver translated several books from French into English. With Dorothy Weaver, he translated Jean Renoir’s Renoir, My Father, a memoir about his father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Dorothy Weaver and Randolph Weaver translated Jean Renoir’s Renoir, My Father, a memoir about his father, the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
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