BERNARD BUFFET: THE INVENTION OF THE MODERN MEGA-ARTIST
Book ID/图书代码： 06495014B67449
English Summary/英文概要： It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the early afternoon of Monday October 4 1999, wracked with Parkinson’s, and unable to paint because of a fall in which he had broken his wrist, Bernard Buffet calmly placed a plastic bag over his head, taped it tight around his neck and patiently waited the few minutes it took for death to arrive. His widow found him at four o’clock, and, using the scissors with which he trimmed his beard, cut away the plastic bag to reveal a face that she described as peaceful and smiling. In a last twist of macabre irony the black polythene through which she sliced was printed with two words in her late husband’s distinctive angular script ’Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet...’ the name repeated over and over again as if in mute funerary lamentation. Bernard Buffet And The Invention Of The Modern Mega-artist’ will tell the remarkable story of a French figurative painter who tasted unprecedented critical and commercial success at an age when his contemporaries were still at art school. Then, with almost equal suddenness the fruits of fame turned sour and he found himself an outcast. Scarred with the contagion of immense commercial success (he was not just rich, he was yacht-rich) no leper was more untouchable. He was the first artist of the television age and the jet age. Such was his celebrity that during the 1960s people spoke of France’s two BBs (the other was Brigitte Bardot). Indeed Buffet’s role in creating the idea of a post-war France is not to be underestimated and will be explored in this book. As the first of the so called Fabulous Five (Francoise Sagan, Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot and Yves Saint Laurent) he was a leader of the cultural revolution that seemed to forge a new France from the shattered remains of a discredited and demoralized country. Rich in incident Buffet’s remarkable story of bisexual love affairs, betrayal, vendettas lasting half a century, shattered reputations, alcoholism, and drug abuse, is played out against the backdrop of the beau monde of the 1950s and 1960s in locations as diverse as St Tropez, Japan, Paris and New York, before coming to its miserable conclusion alone in his studio.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 据说，窒息带来的幻觉醉酒状态......在这种情况下，71岁的艺术家躺在他他广阔的普罗旺斯别墅实行了安乐死。1999年10月4日周一下午早些时候，遭受帕金森病痛的折磨，因为在一个秋天他摔断了的手腕而无法作画，Bernard Buffet冷静地套了一个塑料袋绕过他的头，紧紧地贴着他的脖子，花了几分钟耐心地等待死神的到来。他的遗孀在下午四点发现了他，用他剃胡须的剪刀减去了塑料袋露出了一张据她描述带着平静微笑的脸。在恐怖讽刺的扭曲最后一刻，用她她切成片的黑色聚乙烯在她已故丈夫的独特角度剧本上印有两个字“Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Buffet Bernard Buffet...”名字重复了一遍又一遍，仿佛在放无声陪葬哀歌。此书将会讲述一个法国形象化的画家的非凡故事，在他的同时代人还在艺术学校的时候，尝到了前所未有的重要和商业上的成功。然后，几乎等价的名利果实突然变得酸楚，他发现自己是一个弃儿。与庞大的商业成功上的蔓延积累（他不只是个富人，还有很多个游艇）。非癫痫病者惹不起。他是电视和喷气机时代第一位艺术家。名人如他在20世纪60年代的人谈到了法国的两个BB（另一位是Brigitte Bardot）。事实上Buffet在创造战后法国的作用是不可低估的并且在这本书中将被探讨。作为第一个所谓的的五神话（Francoise Sagan, Roger Vadim, Brigitte Bardot and Yves Saint Laurent）他是文化革命的领导者，似乎建立一个名誉扫地，士气低落的国家成为一个新法国。Buffet的两性爱情中的夺目故事数不胜数，背叛，复仇持续了半个世纪，破灭的声誉，酗酒和吸毒，是对上流社会的背景1950年代和1960年代在不同地域的圣特罗佩，日本，巴黎和纽约的博蒙德下在他独自在工作室迎来悲惨的结局之前。（LNL）
Awards/获奖情况："splendidly unstuffy… first class" (The Times)
"[a] fascinating account" (Bill Prince Telegraph Luxury)
"[a] thoroughly researched account of a life tinged with sadness, spent mostly in the studio, compulsively painting" (The Independent)
"Foulkes is really good at, the thing with which this book is happily stuffed, is snappy storytelling…[The] years of excess provide the book with its most entertaining stretches." (The Sunday Times)
"Whatever your opinion of the work of the prolific French expressionist Bernard Buffet, it’s not hard to be seduced by the premise of Nick Foulkes’ new biography, Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-Artist." (Wallpaper*)
"Foulkes has drowned himself in the subject and done some impressive research… He always has interesting things to say…bold and stylish." (The Spectator)
"A timely reappraisal of Buffet’s work and a haunting account of a glittering career that ended in tragedy" (Daily Mail)
"Riveting" (Daily Mail)
About the Author/作者介绍： 旗帜晚报的ES杂志原副主编Nicholas Foulkes是一个名利场艺术版的编辑并定期为金融时报，乡村生活和周日的“夜与日”邮件写稿。
Formerly Associate Editor of the Evening Standard’s ES magazine, Nicholas Foulkes is edi-tor of Vanity Fair On Art and writes regular columns for the Financial Times, Country Life, and the Mail on Sunday’s ‘Night and Day’.
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