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Le Grand Atelier de Peter Greenaway

Peter Greenaway - Le Grand Atelier de Peter Greenaway
Collection of texts.
Peter Greenaway speaks little and writes even less of his own work. For this reason, this publication could very well serve as a source of information for anyone interested in this marginal personality. These texts were not written in the solitude of a study; they are conversations, debates, seminars, analyses : decompositions meant to recompose the rich multifaceted work nourished by perpetual change of thinking that itself is activated by insatiable curiosity.
Peter Greenaway (born, 1942 in Newport, Wales, lives and works in Amsterdam) trained as a painter for four years, and started making his own films in 1966. He has continued to make cinema in a great variety of ways, which has also informed his curatorial work and the making of exhibitions and installations in Europe from the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice and the Joan Miro Gallery in Barcelona to the Boijmans van Beuningen Gallery in Rotterdam and the Louvre in Paris. He has made 12 feature films and some 50 short-films and documentaries, been regularly nominated for the Film Festival Competitions of Cannes, Venice and Berlin, published books, written opera librettos, and collaborated with composers Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik and David Lang. His first narrative feature film, The Draughtsman's Contract, completed in 1982, received great critical acclaim and established him internationally as an original film maker, a reputation consolidated by the films, The Cook, the Thief, his Wife & her Lover, The Pillow Book, and The Tulse Luper Suitcases.
Collection established by Michel Cieutat. With the Human sciences University of Strasbourg.
 
published in 1998
French edition
17 x 24 cm
240 pages (50 b/w illustrations)
 
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ISBN : 978-2-84066-029-3
EAN : 9782840660293
 
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