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Jean Cocteau

(Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963)

Jean Cocteau (1889-1963), French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Picture taken in 1923: glass negative, restored and cropped print.
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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (UK: KOK-toh, US: kok-TOH; French: [ʒɑ̃ mɔʁis øʒɛn klemɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th century and hugely influential on the Surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The National Observer suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man". (From Wikipedia)

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  • [Info] Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963, contrib.: The Book of the Homeless (Le Livre des Sans-Foyer) (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1916), ed. by Edith Wharton, also contrib. by Maurice Barrès, Sarah Bernhardt, Laurence Binyon, Paul Bourget, Rupert Brooke, Paul Claudel, Joseph Conrad, Vincent d' Indy, Eleonora Duse, John Galsworthy, Edmund Gosse, Robert Grant, Thomas Hardy, Paul Hervieu, William Dean Howells, Georges Louis Humbert, Henry James, Francis Jammes, Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre, Maurice Maeterlinck, Edward Sandford Martin, Alice Meynell, Paul Elmer More, Anna de Noailles, Josephine Preston Peabody, Lilla Cabot Perry, Agnes Repplier, Henri de Régnier, Theodore Roosevelt, Edmond Rostand, George Santayana, Igor Stravinsky, André Suarès, Edith Matilda Thomas, Herbert Trench, Emile Verhaeren, Mrs. Humphry Ward, Barrett Wendell, Margaret L. Woods, and W. B. Yeats, illust. by Léon Bakst, Max Beerbohm, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Edwin Howland Blashfield, Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, Walter Gay, Jean Léon Gérôme, Charles Dana Gibson, E. René Ménard, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Théo van Rysselberghe, and John Singer Sargent
  • [Info] Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963: Vocabulaire: Poèmes (in French; Paris: Éditions de La Sirène, 1922) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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