Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau The colouring The

Jean Cocteau
The colouring
book
56 pages
Format: 250x360 mm
12,00 Euros
Softcover
Published in October 2013
“Whatever you are blamed for, cultivate it: it is you!”
With such a maxim, little wonder Cocteau’s drawings are not alike anyone else’s.
If this great artist is more known as a film-maker, playwright and novelist, his drawing skills are also recognizable,
because full of poetry that he knew oh so well how to breathe into his books. Jean Cocteau would have been
delighted to see children paint happily his drawings with their coloured pencils! He, who was committed to
accompanying and encouraging other artists in their creations, becomes, with this colouring book, a kind of patron
of the budding drawers! Perhaps for once, children will even have the right to colour “outside of the box”…
This luxurious picture book is published this year to commemorate the 50th birthday of the disappearance of Jean
Cocteau. Exhibitions, conferences, theatrical performances and film new editions are thus expected all over France
and across the world to celebrate this great author’s work.
Poet, novelist, drawer, painter, playwright, choreographer, designer, film-maker, scriptwriter, actor, editor but also
a radio personality… Jean Cocteau is a protean artist who will have approached every shore of creation. He is the
man of a total art, enrolled in a rampant century.
Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau was born in 1989 near Paris in a wealthy middle-class family who had the taste of the arts. In 1909,
he published his first articles, drawings and poems. He staged Parade in 1917, to the music of Satie and the settings
of Picasso, collaborated with young musicians, “Les six”, and became in the 1920s an important exponent of avantgarde art. He went into theatre with Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel, La Voix Humaine, Œdipe Roi, Le sang d’un poète, La
Machine Infernale… He wrote also a lot of poems, novels (Le Grand Ecart, Thomas l’Imposteur, Les Enfants terribles)
and autobiographical stories (Opium). In the 1930s, he started a prolific career of film-maker with Le Sang d’un
poète, L’Eternel Retour, La Belle et la Bête, Les Parents terribles, Orphée, Le Testament d’Orphé... He was also
admitted to the Académie Française in 1955. He died in October 1936.
Contact:
Éditions GLÉNAT | 39 rue du Gouverneur Éboué | 92130 | Issy les Moulineaux | France
Foreign Rights | James Elliott | james.elliott@glenat.com | Phone: + 33 (0)1 41 46 09 72
In the same series also available (in a big and small format)
Cahier de Coloriage Yves Saint Laurent
Volume 1
Cahier de Coloriage Yves Saint Laurent
Volume 2 : Prêt-à-porter
Published in September 2012
The Jean-Charles Castelbajac colouring book
Contact:
Éditions GLÉNAT | 39 rue du Gouverneur Éboué | 92130 | Issy les Moulineaux | France
Foreign Rights | James Elliott | james.elliott@glenat.com | Phone: + 33 (0)1 41 46 09 72