Le portrait véritable. Divers des ivoires

des ivoires

This book traces the exceptional career of Brancusi

a last life

bear witness to the inventiveness deployed by the peoples of Asia to inscribe their destinies in time

Yet it was precisely because of the oriental sources of the fabulist that I had thought of an artist whose origins and culture made this prestigious Orient familiar

Le portrait véritable. Divers des ivoiresThroughout history, the tale has developed on the margins of all literature. Beyond the different qualities of style or spirit, they all reveal a fascinating unity: the magic of the word in which a secret truth always seems to seek refuge. Around the mystery of the image and its model, these six tales, fanciful or biting, are like paintings painted by Jean Frmon: everything is at once imaginary and true. We are left with a new quarrel of images which