Illustrations for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos. Georges Barbier. Illustrations for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos Love and Death

Formed under the influence of four things:

Georges Barbier (1882-1932) - French painter, designer and illustrator, one of the creators of the Art Deco style.
He began his creative career as a theater designer, designing sketches for costumes and scenery for ballet productions of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons.

Barbier's first book of illustrations was published in 1913. It was the album "Vaclav Nijinsky. Drawings of dances".

In 1914, an album dedicated to Tamara Karsavina was released.

You can compare the drawing with a photograph of a beautiful ballerina.

After the First World War, the artist collaborated with many fashion magazines (including, by the way, the well-known Vogue). Thanks to his work, Art Deco became the respectable and exemplary style of the interwar decades.

During these years, one after another, books illustrated by the artist were published. As a rule, these were collector's editions, published in a limited edition.

"Songs of Bilitis" by Barbier's friend, engraver and artist François-Louis Schmid, printed in 125 copies. This 1928 edition is recognized as a masterpiece of the era.

No less famous among bibliophiles is the rare edition of the book of poems by Paul Verlaine "Gallant festivities". Drawings for it were created from 1920 to 1924.

Among the book graphics of Georges Barbier, illustrations for Theophile Gauthier's novel "

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The French painter, designer, fashion designer and illustrator Georges Barbier (1882-1932) is one of the largest graphic artists of the first third of the 20th century and is among the creators of the Art Deco style among such masters as Leon Bakst, Paul Iribe, Georges Lepap and Erte, whose work turned Art Deco into a respectable and exemplary style of the interwar decades.

Georges Barbier was born in Nantes, was a student of Jean-Paul Laurent and graduated from the Higher National School of Fine Arts in Paris.
The first exhibition of J. Barbier took place in 1910 at the Salon of Humorists, where he appeared under the pseudonym Edward William. His work immediately attracted serious attention, but the artist began his creative career in the theater, where he developed sketches of costumes and scenery for ballet productions of Diaghilev's Russian Seasons. In addition, he designed jewelry, glassware, as well as posters and advertisements in periodicals. But a special place in the work of J. Barbier is occupied by book graphics and illustrations in fashion magazines.

The first book with illustrations by J. Barbier was the album “Vaclav Nijinsky. Drawings of dances”, published in 1913. The next album was dedicated to T. Karsavina (1914).

After the First World War, the artist collaborated with some fashion magazines such as Gazette du bon ton and Bog, as well as the satirical newspapers Le Rire and La Baionnette and more serious newspapers: La Gazette, Modes et manieres d "aujourd" hui", "Les Feuillets d" art", "Femina", "Vogue", "Com?dia illustre" and "le Jardin des dames et des modes". In these publications, he wrote articles on fashion, At the same time, he was designing music halls, theaters and cinematographs, creating original bookplates and prefaces for exhibition catalogs, and in the mid-1920s he created costume designs for the updated Folies Bergère with Erté. Constant articles and illustrations by J. Barbier in periodicals reached incredible popularity by the end of 1920. One after another, books illustrated by the artist were published, among which are a series of drawings for Richard Le Galen's "The Novel of Aromas" (1928), "The Songs of Bilitis » Pierre Louis (1922) and books ge poems by Paul Verlaine "Gallant festivities" (1928). Among the books illustrated by him are also editions of Baudelaire, Theophile Gauthier, Musset, Verlaine, Louvet de Couvre.
Barbier repeatedly turned to the work of Henri de Regnier, creating a bright stylized world, consonant with the writer's aestheticism. In different years in the Parisian publishing house "A. et G. Mornay” four novels by Renier were published with drawings by Barbier: “The Sinner” (1924), “Twice Beloved” (1928), “Meetings of Monsieur de Breo” (1930) and “Escapade” (1931).

One of the most famous works of the artist was the illustrations for "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos, in which Barbier created an exquisite graphic interpretation of the famous novel, linking together the elegance of the gallant age with the frivolity of the "laughing twenties". "Dangerous Liaisons" was the artist's last book. In 1932, at the zenith of his fame, Georges Barbier died suddenly.

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Fear the philologist with love who comes:

Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov: "Love. NN remained the executor of the great philologist; he, knowing the price of exact facts, took care to leave his own Don Juan list in his archive. I could not resist and asked: "Annotated?"

Indeed, the annotations in such a scientific list are the most interesting.

Inappropriately accompanied by amorous illustrations by the Frenchman Georges Barbier (1882-1932), which are about something else, "Notes and extracts" by Gasparov about love:

Love.“With the receipt of this, you are invited to fall in love with humanity within two hours” (S. Krzhizhanovsky, on the problems of the vicariate of feelings).

Love.“A good chess player can play without looking at the board, a good lover can love without looking at a woman” (S. Krzhizhanovsky, 1991, 104).

Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 99 - Pour le vernissage du printemps: la toilette des nymphes: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier.

Love.“I do not envy that he was loved, I envy that he knew how to evade,” said S. Av.

Love. Whom you love, you bear the yoke - Babylonian proverb (Lambert 230).

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Love. Boccaccio in Philokolo distinguishes between love for God, love-passion and love for sale: he is silent about the first, despises the third, and warns against the second its beginning is fear, the middle is sin, and the end is vexation.

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love.“When someone is in love, he is harmful and annoying, but when his love passes, he becomes treacherous.” — Plato, Phaedrus, 240d.

- Love is when you torture your neighbor not by chance, but with concentration.

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love."Dry Love", Platonic (Dal).

"Love vseboy", the title of the section in Simakov's Chastushkas.

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

"Laisa a name that was common among Greek hetaerae and became a household name for women with an independent concept of a moral code ”(E. Boratynsky,“ Verse and Poems ”,“ Sovr. ”, 1982, p. 214,“ Dictionary of Obsolete Words ”).

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Bed."Lodge-alternating sleep," Leskov translated the word "adyul-ter."

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love.“If you manage people as virtuous, they will love their neighbors; if they are vicious, they will love these orders” (Shang Yang, 5th century BC).

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book "Dangerous Liaisons" by Choderlos de Laclos.

Love. Everyone composed Pushkin's great love according to his own taste: Shchegolev - Raevskaya, Bryusov - Riznich, Tsyavlovsky - Vorontsov, Akhmatova - Sobanskaya, Tynyanov - Karamzin.

The psychoanalysis of Pushkin is a dubious matter, but the psychoanalysis of Pushkin studies is quite real.

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Love. V. Weidle: French literature was for Pushkin the parents who are not chosen, and the wife, who is chosen out of love, was English.

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book by Paul Verlaine "Gallant festivities".

Love. Klyuchevsky called Bartenev the posthumous lover of Catherine II (GM, 1926, 3, 180).

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 159 - Pan dans l "oeil! ...: . George Barbier, 1918. BNF

Love. I love my older nephew for being smart, and my younger nephew for being stupid (Elm in LP, 24).

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 45 - La mythologie galante: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier. BNF

Love. T. Masaryk recalled: in order to more closely connect man with man and accustom people to love, they recommended, for example, sewing buttons on the back of frock coats, so that brother would help brother with buttoning. And we are all happy to sew buttons on the back of our brothers so that they cannot button them themselves, and so on. (SZ 65.172).

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 121 - Vieilles chansons pour les jeunes personnes: . George Barbier, 1918. BNF

Love. Shershenevich about Yesenin: the village annoyed him, and he was afraid to stop loving her.

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 155 - Le paillon et la rose: . George Barbier, 1916. BNF

Love. He loves Mandelstam without reciprocity; Me too, but at least I try to earn this love.

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 42 - Les femmes ne font la guerre qu "avec les armes de l" amour: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier, 1915. BNF

Love. From Kruchenykh's notes on Mayakovsky. Olesha: “Do not offend NN. He must be loved. Mayakovsky: “I need to, but I don’t want to.”

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 107 - Le retour imprevu: . George Barbier. BNF

Love. Voloshin called the sailors' brothels: "Lovers" (UFO, 12, 352).

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 153 - La petite guerre: . George Barbier, 1915. BNF

Love.“Tsvetaeva, apparently, loved her lovers as a poet, and her husband - for real,” said NN.

Shklovsky told L. Ya. Ginzburg "He hates Lilya Mayakovsky because he is a man of genius, and not Osya." So she loves Brick? "Of course."

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Georges Barbier. Illustration for the book by Henri de Regnier "Meetings of Monsieur de Breo".

Love. You cannot love another as yourself, but you can dislike yourself as another.

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1924

Love. I analyzed Bryusov's "Antony" in front of American graduate students: "passion" is a generic concept, "love" is a specific one, there is a semantic narrowing, and so on. I was asked if it was the other way around. I was surprised. Then they explained to me: for them, love is a general case of a pleasant occupation of love-making, and passion is an annoying aggravating particular circumstance that needs to be got rid of as soon as possible.

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1922

Love. There was a movie "Autumn Marathon", when leaving the cinema, I heard a woman's conversation: "I don't like such men." In the press, after some hesitation, the general tone of the reviews was: "The Party and the government do not like such men."

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1925

Love.“It’s not when people look at each other, but when they look at the same thing” (“on TV,” the cynics add). Perhaps that is why it is easier for me to talk to people, because I look not at them, but at their objects; and because it is more difficult that these objects are indifferent to me.

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1924

Love."I was looking for unrequited love, because I felt that I was incapable of reciprocating."

- "I love you more than it's good for me, but less than it's good for you" (from English, where?).

— Adamovich, Od. and St. 419, quotes (and also does not remember from where): "I love you, but it's none of your business."

Love and death.

She loved only roses, And I loved - Levkoy.
She loved noise and thunderstorms, And I loved peace.

We parted. She withered
From sighs and from tears.
Fate has already broken me -
But - I re-carried everything.

P. V. Zhadovsky, brother of his sister

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 61 - Nouveaux dessins pour les vieux refrains de nos soldats: "La Vie Parisienne". George Barbier. BNF. / Fragment, on click - full sheet

Shame. To be ashamed of a wife - not to see children (Dal).

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Dessinateurs et humorists. George Barbier. 1912-1924. Vue 10 - Les Fanfreluches de l "Amour: . George Barbier, 1913. BNF.

Wife. Statistics: women feel inferior without their husbands, and husbands feel inferior with their wives.

Fragments from the academician's book Mikhail Gasparov (1935-2005): Gasparov Mikhail Leonovich. Notes and extracts, 3rd ed. - M .: New Literary Review, 2012 . pp. 35, 149, 246, 276, 341, 351-352.

In the first edition, the sources of the records were more detailed (not in all cases), the text was copied from: Gasparov M.L. Recordings and extracts. - M .: New literary review, 2001 -