Giannalberto Bendazzi
Alexeieff : Itinerary of a Master
Author(s) Maurice Lemaître
Year 2001
Language(s) French
Pages 320 pages
Publisher Dreamland
Description
A master. But with how many students? A genius. But did people really understand his themes? A good man. But wasn't he rather severe? A precursor. But in what way, exactly? Half of a couple, but what role did the other half play? Animation cinema. But engraving equally so. A Russian spirit. But no more than French. An enigma, if you will, hidden beneath the renown of masterpieces like the film Night on Bald Mountain or the etchings dedicated to Edgar Allan Poe, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Dostoïevski, Gogol... An author to be discovered, beyond the inevitable accolades normally tossed out by all cinema historians in their overview of animation. At the dawn of the new millennium, this book allows us, for the first time, to cast a ray of light on one of the artists who marked the 20th century with his originality and poetic force.