Zinoview Cendrars. Two legionnaires in the Great War. Crossed perspectives of a painter and a writer.
Somogy| N° d'inventaire | 21390 |
| Format | 24.7 x 28.7 |
| Détails | 128 p., 100 illustrations, hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
On July 29, 1914, Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss-born poet, wrote an appeal that appeared in Parisian newspapers, calling on all foreigners who were friends of France to enlist for the duration of the war. On August 24, Alexandre Zinoview, a Russian painter who had been living in France since 1909, volunteered. Both members of the Foreign Legion, their experiences aligned, and in October 1915, on the Champagne front, their destinies crossed at the Navarin farm where Cendrars was wounded. These two fighters became witnesses. Zinoview painted at the front, while Cendrars was haunted by the memories of this war. The dialogue between their works forms the framework of this book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Foreign Legion Museum in Aubagne. Through their shared perspectives, it is above all to the comrades of the Legion, to this exceptional surge of foreigners who volunteered during the Great War, that Alexandre Zinoview and Blaise Cendrars pay a moving tribute.
On July 29, 1914, Blaise Cendrars, a Swiss-born poet, wrote an appeal that appeared in Parisian newspapers, calling on all foreigners who were friends of France to enlist for the duration of the war. On August 24, Alexandre Zinoview, a Russian painter who had been living in France since 1909, volunteered. Both members of the Foreign Legion, their experiences aligned, and in October 1915, on the Champagne front, their destinies crossed at the Navarin farm where Cendrars was wounded. These two fighters became witnesses. Zinoview painted at the front, while Cendrars was haunted by the memories of this war. The dialogue between their works forms the framework of this book, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Foreign Legion Museum in Aubagne. Through their shared perspectives, it is above all to the comrades of the Legion, to this exceptional surge of foreigners who volunteered during the Great War, that Alexandre Zinoview and Blaise Cendrars pay a moving tribute.