Author: COVEN, JEFFREY Title: Baudelaire's Voyages: The Poet and His Painters
Description: Boston: Bulfinch Press / Little, Brown and Company, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0821219995. Stated first edition. French poet and essayist Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) was also known as an astute art critic. Many contemporary artists painted works named after Baudelaire's poems. This companion volume to an exhibition at the Heckscher Museum, organized by author Jeffrey Coven, presents 65 color and 49 black & white illustrations of paintings and drawings displayed at the exhibition. Many of Baudelaire's poems are presented in both French and English languages. Includes an essay by Dore Ashton. --- In navy cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Volume wrapped in jacket with representative art works to front and back panels. --- A bright, tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Jacket also in great shape, though with mild rubbing.; Oblong Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; [7], 8-184 pages. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket .
Keywords: 0821219995
Price: US$ 13.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 89297