Scan barcode
A review by barrettcmyk
Kiki de Montparnasse by Catel, Jose-Luis Bocquet
4.0
If you've known me for any length of time, you know that i have a have a serious love of the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century, particularly Dada and Surrealism. I may have written my first high school term paper on the movement. And i may have written one or two more in college on the Russian avant-garde. Imagine my delight when i found this graphic novel in my library's stacks. And imagine my shame that I had never heard of Kiki before. I recognized Man Ray's Le Violon d'Ingres on the cover, but never bothered to think or ask who the model was.
Raised in abject poverty, teen-aged Kiki (born Alice Prin) moved to Paris with her mother to find work. After being fired several times over, Kiki accepted a job posing nude for a local artist (she was 13 or 14 at this point). Within a few years she was model, muse, friend, lover, and even fellow artist to some of the greatest names in the avant-garde. Man Ray. Duchamp. Breton. Cocteau. Picasso.
If you have any interest in a) badass women, b) France, c) the avant-garde, or d) all of the above, you'll get a kick out of Kiki.
Raised in abject poverty, teen-aged Kiki (born Alice Prin) moved to Paris with her mother to find work. After being fired several times over, Kiki accepted a job posing nude for a local artist (she was 13 or 14 at this point). Within a few years she was model, muse, friend, lover, and even fellow artist to some of the greatest names in the avant-garde. Man Ray. Duchamp. Breton. Cocteau. Picasso.
If you have any interest in a) badass women, b) France, c) the avant-garde, or d) all of the above, you'll get a kick out of Kiki.