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Masson/Massacres.
COMPERE-MOREL Thomas (dir.).

Masson/Massacres.

Skira, Threshold.
€25,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25328
Format 24.5 x 28.2
Détails 92 p., numerous color illustrations, publisher's hardcover.
Publication 2001
Etat Occasion
ISBN 9788884911414
Veterans of the Great War, in one way or another, did not fail to speak and write about their atrocious experiences. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, through Journey to the End of the Night , shook up French literature. Alongside other writers, other artists, André Masson experienced the same pain, the trauma of the trenches, before bringing them back, carrying with him indelible images of them despite himself. Mobilized in 1914, at the age of eighteen, the second-class infantryman Masson was seriously wounded at Chemin des Dames, three years later. What he experienced then will never leave him ("I didn't manage to detoxify myself... The film is there... They'll bury me with it!") Masson/Massacres offers precisely an important (and rare) collection of works by André Masson, particularly traumatized by "his" Great War and which the book gives an account of (it is also the exhibition catalog of the Historial de la Grande Guerre at the Château de Peronne in the Somme). Here, then, is a wounded genius who bears witness in a masterful way to the horror of his war, of war. There we find a theater of cruelty and its hallucinatory visions ("I stored up a pile of images that became compositional processes.") whose erotic part is also substantial: bodies that collide, penetrate, jostle each other, petrified orgies, penises erected as weapons, piles of limbs... abundant compositions that sound like shell bursts... A whole game of frightening and appalling massacres (pencil drawings, inks, oils and pastels) reproduced on full pages. All the work of a wounded genius who masterfully bears witness to the horror of war. --Céline Darner
Veterans of the Great War, in one way or another, did not fail to speak and write about their atrocious experiences. Louis-Ferdinand Céline, through Journey to the End of the Night , shook up French literature. Alongside other writers, other artists, André Masson experienced the same pain, the trauma of the trenches, before bringing them back, carrying with him indelible images of them despite himself. Mobilized in 1914, at the age of eighteen, the second-class infantryman Masson was seriously wounded at Chemin des Dames, three years later. What he experienced then will never leave him ("I didn't manage to detoxify myself... The film is there... They'll bury me with it!") Masson/Massacres offers precisely an important (and rare) collection of works by André Masson, particularly traumatized by "his" Great War and which the book gives an account of (it is also the exhibition catalog of the Historial de la Grande Guerre at the Château de Peronne in the Somme). Here, then, is a wounded genius who bears witness in a masterful way to the horror of his war, of war. There we find a theater of cruelty and its hallucinatory visions ("I stored up a pile of images that became compositional processes.") whose erotic part is also substantial: bodies that collide, penetrate, jostle each other, petrified orgies, penises erected as weapons, piles of limbs... abundant compositions that sound like shell bursts... A whole game of frightening and appalling massacres (pencil drawings, inks, oils and pastels) reproduced on full pages. All the work of a wounded genius who masterfully bears witness to the horror of war. --Céline Darner