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Renoir, My Father

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Renoir, My Father
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dorothy Weaver
By (author) Jean Renoir
By (author) Randolph Weaver
By (author) Robert L. Herbert
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:456
Dimensions(mm): Height 200,Width 125
Category/GenreImpressionism and post-Impressionism
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
Biographies and autobiography
ISBN/Barcode 9780940322776
ClassificationsDewey:759.4
Audience
Children / Juvenile
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Teenage / Young Adult
Edition Main

Publishing Details

Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc
Imprint NYRB Classics
Publication Date 30 September 2001
Publication Country United States

Description

In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of thumb by which he worked, and capturing his unpretentious and wonderfully engaging talk and personality, Jean Renoir's book is both a wonderful double portrait of father and son and the best book that has been written about Renoir and his paintings.

Author Biography

Jean Renoir (1894-1979), the son of the painter Auguste Renoir, was born in Paris, grew up in the south of France, and served as a cavalryman and pilot during World War I. He directed many films, including his masterpieces Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939), and in 1975 received an Academy Award for his lifetime contribution to the cinema.