jean cocteau: je reste avec vous
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Jean Cocteau (1889 – 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other Surrealists of his generation Cocteau grappled with the “algebra” of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.