David Gullentops' new monograph, Jean Cocteau et l'intermédialité, is now available from Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. The book presentation will take place at Centre Pompidou in Paris on 26 September, 18:00. During the event, the author will introduce his work and engage in a conversation with Muriel Genthon, director of the Maison Jean Cocteau. While admission is free, seating is limited. To reserve your spot, please send a request to: reservation@maisonjeancocteau.com.
Jean Cocteau et l'intermédialité
Jean Cocteau was a pioneer in the field of intermediality. As early as the 1920s, he was practicing a 'new kind' of art. Artistic interferences arise from the blending of rarely reconciled media, such as theater and children's literature, ballet and photography, poetry and the detective genre, or film and the fairground arts. They give rise to entirely new kinds of intermedia combinations. The characteristics of this intermedial practice avant la lettre are analyzed in four major works: the show Les Mariés de la tour Eiffel, the ballet Le Train bleu, the poetry collection Opéra and the film Le Sang d'un poète.
