José-Louis Bocquet

Jos -Louis Bocquet y Catel Muller cuentan en Josephine Baker la historia de una mujer que se convirti en un icono de los locos a os veinte por su alegr a de vivir y su rabiosa modernidad. Bocquet y Catel rinden homenaje a una artista que deslumbr al p blico, pero que tambi n demostr sus elevados valores y su compromiso, y rompi todos los tab es a pesar de su g nero, color de piel y origen humilde. Josephine Baker cuenta la vida de una mujer excepcional que cant al amor y a la libertad hasta su ltimo aliento y que, a d a de hoy, sigue siendo un ejemplo de lucha, constancia y solidaridad. «Amigos m os, sab is que no miento si os digo que he tenido acceso a palacios de reyes y reinas, a casas de presidentes, mientras en Estados Unidos no pod a entrar en un hotel o beber un caf , y eso me pon a furiosa . -Josephine Baker, Marcha en Washington por el empleo y la libertad, 28 de agosto de 1963. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Jos -Louis Bocquet and Catel Muller tell the story of a woman who became an icon of the Roaring Twenties for her joie de vivre and her zealous modernism. Bocquet and Catel pay homage to an artist who dazzled the audience, one who exhibited high values and commitment, and broke all taboos despite her gender, skin color, and humble beginnings. Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon. In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally. She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.

In 1895, the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph. Less than a year later, 23-year-old Alice Guy, the first female filmmaker in cinema history, made The Cabbage Fairy, a 60-second movie, for Léon Gaumont, going on to direct over 300 films before 1922. Her life is a shadow history of early cinema, the chronicle of an art form coming into its own. A free and independent woman, rubbing shoulders with luminaries such as Georges Méliès and the Lumières, she was the first to define the professions of screenwriter and producer. She directed the first feminist satire, then the first sword-and-sandal epic, before crossing the Atlantic in 1907 to become the first woman to found her own production company in New Jersey. Alice Guy died in 1969, excluded from the annals of film history. In 2011, Martin Scorsese honoured this cinematic visionary, “forgotten by the industry she had helped create”, describing her as “a filmmaker of rare sensitivity, with a remarkable poetic eye and an extraordinary feel for locations”. The same can be said of Catel & Bocquet’s luminous account of her life.

Graficheskaja biografija samogo vlijatelnogo evropejskogo khudozhnika komiksov - Erzhe, podarivshego mirovoj kulture komiksy pro belgijskogo reportjora Tintina. V knige my uznaem o tom, kak eschjo v 7 let on vybral risovanie svoej professiej, kak s 30-kh godov emu prikhodilos rabotat pri pravitelstve Tretego Rejkha, kak slozhno bylo vosstanovit svojo imja posle okonchanija vtoroj mirovoj vojny, kak byl izobretjon stil "chistoj linii", kakoe vlijanie on okazal na pop-art i Endi Uorkhola, na rezhissjorov prikljuchencheskikh filmov vrode Dzhordzha Lukasa, i mnogoe drugoe. Boke Zhoze-Ljuis (Jose-Louis Bocquet)Fromental Zhan-Ljuk (Jean-Luc Fromental)Bartelemi Stanislas (Illustrated by Stanislas Barthelemy)Perevod: Maksim Trudov