Claude Jeancolas
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Claude Jeancolas | |
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Born | 1949 |
Died | 10 February 2016 |
Occupation | Journalist, writer, art historian |
Nationality | French |
Claude Jeancolas (1949 – 10 February 2016) was a French writer, art historian, and journalist.[1] He is best known for his work on Arthur Rimbaud.[2][3]
Life
[edit]His childhood and adolescence were spent in Nancy, in the east of France. At the age of 16, he left for Paris with his Baccalaureate diploma. There, he continued his studies in a preparatory class for the "grandes écoles". He entered the École Supérieure de Commerce of Paris (ESCP). He has a degree from the Business School of the University of Texas where he wrote his thesis on management of the American press. He was also a visiting scholar in various American universities including UCLA, Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, San Francisco State University, the School of Journalism in Columbia Missouri, and Columbia University in New York. He died on 17 February 2016.[4]
Journalism career
[edit]He began his career as the head of the financial analysis department of the weekly magazine Entreprise; he then created two management journals: Enseignement et gestion and the Revue Française de Gestion. After that, he took over as head of the avant-garde monthly Mode international. Several years later, he edited the magazines Collections, Décoration, and Mariages. He moved to Votre Beauté, a magazine that François Mitterrand edited at the beginning of his career. He later joined the Hachette Group, which is now the Lagardère Group, as the international editor of Elle[1] (four editions created worldwide) and Elle Décoration (14 editions created worldwide). He also created Cousteau Junior and Max. Until 2012, he was the director of Marie Claire maison and Marie Claire travel magazines in Milan.
Art historian career
[edit]His interest in art developed in 1969 after meeting with the sculptor Edmond Moirignot, with whom he became a friend and later his guardian and executor of will. He published an important monograph on the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux in 1987. Following this publication, he engaged in intensive studies on the history of sculpture and French drawing. Later, he published two books on the Nabis and the Fauves, which are post-impressionist movements that contributed to the development of modernist art at the turn of the century.
Rimbaud
[edit]After quoting Arthur Rimbaud to his professor Izambard in an editorial for Max—the magazine he was directing at the time—he received an overwhelming amount of mail, prompting him to explore the subject in greater depth. He continued to delve into Rimbaud's work, regularly publishing his insights. In his view, Rimbaud was too intelligent (the top of his class) to be incoherent. He believed that Rimbaud's poems always carried meaning, were coherent, and served a purpose. Rimbaud, in his opinion, is determined, willful and completely gave himself over to poetry because he was certain that it can be life changing. Une Saison en enfer, which was a quest for salvation, was also a written essay of a new bible for modern times. Poetry is thus a means and not an end; a tool at the service of a very spiritual and humanist ideal. He has also attempted to redeem the poet's well-criticised mother, Vitalie Rimbaud, in a biography that attempted to demonstrate the intense love that attached this mother to her preferred child and, conversely, the necessity of this mother for Rimbaud to become the man that we know.
Bibliography
[edit]Main publications:
- 1985
- Moirignot. Éditions du St Gothard. Paris
- 1987
- Carpeaux peintre et sculpteur. Edita. Lausanne
- 1991
- La Sculpture italienne du XXe siècle. Éditions Van Wilder. Paris
- Les Voyages de Rimbaud. Balland. Paris
- Le Dictionnaire Rimbaud. Balland. Paris
- 1993
- La Sculpture française. Fabbri. Milan
- 1995
- Le Dessin en France de la renaissance au XXe siècle. Rizzoli. Milan
- 1996
- L'œuvre intégrale manuscrite de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris
- 1997
- Le Don du père. Flammarion. Paris
- Les Lettres manuscrites de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris
- 1998
- Lettres et poèmes de Rimbaud. L'auberge verte. Paris
- Une saison en enfer de Rimbaud. Hachette. Paris
- Passion Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris
- 1999
- Poésies de Rimbaud. Éditions mille et une nuits. Paris
- Rimbaud, la biographie. Flammarion. Paris
- Venise et ses peintres. Une histoire intime. Éditions Van Wilder. Paris
- L'Afrique de Rimbaud. Textuel. Paris
- 2000
- Rimbaud, l'œuvre. Textuel. Paris
- 2002
- La Peinture des Nabis. Éditions fvw. Paris
- 2004
- Vitalie Rimbaud, pour l'amour d'un fils. biographie. Flammarion
- Rimbaud après Rimbaud, anthologie. Textuel. Paris
- 2005
- Rimbaud, l'œuvre, la vie. Éditions France Loisirs
- 2006
- Les Fauves, couleurs et lumières. Éditions FVW. Paris
- Moirignot, la vie, l'œuvre, le catalogue raisonné. Éditions FVW. Paris
- 2007
- Le regard bleu d'Arthur Rimbaud. Éditions FVW. Paris
- 2008 in collaboration
- Fierté de fer with Joël Alessandra et Idriss Youssouf Elmi. Éditions Paquet. Genève
- L'aube du monde with Thibaut et Pascal Villecroix, Amina Saïd Chiré - FVW. Paris
- 2008
- Le Retour à Tadjoura – l'Afrique secrète de Jean-François Deniau – FVW. Paris
Many of those were translated in German, Korean, Japanese and English.
References
[edit]- ^ a b Giovannini, Joseph (28 April 1988). "CURRENTS; Decoration Tries a New Accent". The New York Times. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "A Charleville, Rimbaud puissance 50". L'Union (in French). 8 January 2008. Retrieved 24 December 2010.
- ^ "Avec la mort de Claude Jeancolas, Arthur Rimbaud perd un de ses plus grands connaisseurs". lunion. Archived from the original on 19 February 2016.
- ^ "Avec la mort de Claude Jeancolas, Arthur Rimbaud perd un de ses plus grands connaisseurs". Lunion.fr. Archived from the original on 19 February 2016. Retrieved 20 February 2016.