Boris Lehman
Le petit Boris illustré : Boris Lehman par lui-même
Author(s) Boris Lehman
Format Illustr. b & w and color /// hardcover
Year 1989 - 1995
Language(s) French
Pages 736 pages
Description
For the first time, a book that captures the almost legendary figure of Belgian filmmaker Boris Lehman.
Here, no film analysis, no criticism. Rather, it's an artist's book, a portrait of Boris by himself, presented as carefully arranged fragments, mixing drawings, photos, poems and various documents.
"Defining the art of Boris Lehman is a complicated game. Yet he is not alone of his kind. Unclassifiable, as has often been repeated, ultimately to dismiss him. By turns limpid, strange, surrealist, hermetic, fantastic. One could say: a jack-of-all-trades. He navigated between ready-made and Oulipo, circulated between art brut and arte povera. In any case, an art of accumulation and sedimentation."
-Léopold Blum, Foreword.
With that good-natured air we know so well, this character, essentially a walker, decked out in caps, bags and cameras... we find him in his entirety, multiplied infinitely, as in a hall of mirrors, in this summa-book, a true encyclopedia that gathers, over more than half a century, scattered fragments of his life.
Summary
Adam and Eve, addresses, AJC, Album 1, loves (love story), birthdays, Antonin Artaud (club), atelier b, self-portraits. /// Babel, kisses, Béguinage. /// Calendrier sympathique, notebooks / journals, postcards (images of the world), Ça tourne, Chaise électrique (La), mushrooms, Things that connect me to people, filmmakers (portraits), Cinélibre/Cinédit, cinema (cinema as a profession…), Cinématons, collections, Couple, regards, positions, headwear, reviews. /// Dance, drawings, division of my time. /// Schools, Entracte, exiles. /// Family, women, filming (I film therefore I am), siblings. /// Golem, Griottes (club des), groups. /// Men, humor. /// Identities, incisions, Insas /// Journalism (the journalistic experience), Jew. /// Knokke Out. /// Books (Boris in books). /// Eating (to live), walking, masks, military (service), live model, death. /// Birth, swimming, Noire, nudes. /// Idleness (in praise of), ontological (films), opera (La Véritable Histoire de la Dame blanche). /// Plaques, poems, polaroids, Poland, Poissons (Les). /// What? /// "Reassuring/anxiety-inducing," ruins (the taste for ruins). /// Bag (L'Affaire est dans le sac), health (to your health). /// Temps des ours (Le), leaflets (my life in leaflets). /// Jacket (Histoire de la veste). /// Waterloo. /// Damn. /// E.T.C.
Illustrations / double pages
Posters /// Self-portraits /// Notebooks /// Headwear /// Drawings /// Entr'acte /// Eating (to live) /// Messages /// Birth /// Idleness.
736 pages /// Format 24 x 17 cm
Illustr. b & w and color /// hardcover
Collection: Côté cinéma
ISBN 9782873404925