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Jean Frémon's THE PARADOXES OF ROBERT RYMAN: EXPANDED EDITION is an extended edition of a collection of essays about the American abstract painter, Robert Ryman. Robert Ryman's remarks were written down by Fremon during the course of many visits to his studio in 1989 and 1990. Fremon wrote down his thoughts and Ryman's remarks in French, even though their conversations were spoken in English. From these notes Frémon wrote a collection of essay...

Fables, memories, things he's read, things he's seen, transposed or made up, the stories gathered in this slim volume have the portrait, portraitists and the portraitees as common themes. Fremon takes the reader around the world, hopping through art history, as facts and personal memories are retold with imaginative flair for the telling detail.

A wry, erudite fable about the first painter to represent the saviour of humankind without his swaddling clothes with drawings by Louise Bourgeois.

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Cultural Writing. Poetry. Jean Fremon was born in Asnieres, outside Paris, in 1946. Poet, novelist, art critic, he has published numerous books in France and has been translated into English by Lydia Davis, Stacy Doris, Tom Mandel, and Norma Cole. PAINTING, translated by fiction writer Brian Evenson, is his first single-author volume to appear in English. Composed of three lyrical essays, Eclipse, Painting, and Summer (Been), PAINTING explores...

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Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from memory, of a woman who devoted her life to her art, a life that was also the life of the century' writes J. Fremon.

A chapbook of prose poems on existence and the self, with French on facing pages

Louise Bourgeois hat sich gerne mit Eugénie Grandet verglichen, jener Titelheldin aus dem Roman von Honoré de Balzac, in dem ein von maßlosem Ehrgeiz und Geiz zerfressener französischer frühkapitalistischer Provinzler seine Familie im Namen kalter Profitmaximierung terrorisiert. Die Künstlerin, selbst Tochter eines patriarchal gesinnten französischen Unternehmers, identifizierte sich mit Eugénie, der Tochter von Grandet. Sie war für sie - auch...

Always deft, always precise, these short pieces bring the fin-de-siècle world of Paris's belle époque into conversation with today.

A novel by the author of Island of the Dead.

A long fiction by the noted French author, Jean Fremon.