Jean Cocteau.CENTRE GEORGES POMPIDOU Centre Georges Pompidou (constructed 1971–1977 and known as the Pompidou Centre in English) is a complex in the Beaubourg area of the IVe arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles and the Marais. Though often dismissed as an erratic flibbertigibbet flib·ber·ti·gib·bet n. A silly, scatterbrained, or garrulous person. [Middle English flipergebet. , Jean Cocteau was one of the twentieth century's great agents provocateurs. He spanned the worlds of Proust and Picasso, Diaghilev and Warhol, Stravinsky and Piaf, animating an·i·mate tr.v. an·i·mat·ed, an·i·mat·ing, an·i·mates 1. To give life to; fill with life. 2. To impart interest or zest to; enliven: them all with his imaginative, insatiably inventive spirit. The ardent avant-gardist who was also a leading proponent of neoclassicism neoclassicism: see classicism. , the onetime revolutionary-cum-Catholic reactionary, Cocteau was the embodiment of the contradictions inherent in French modernism. This retrospective, organized by Pompidou curators Dominique Paini, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, and Francois Nemer, examines his career through over 900 drawings, photographs, paintings, ceramics, and manuscripts, as well as a film festival. It promises to return Cocteau to the center stage position he always craved. Sept. 25-Jan. 5. |
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