John Baxter’s “French Riviera and Its Artists” – free book giveaway to 2 subscribers!
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Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d’Azur that’s sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike.
Baxter introduces the iconic figures indelibly linked to the South of France—artist Henri Matisse, who lived in Nice for much of his life; F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose Riviera hosts inspired his controversial book Tender is the Night; Coco Chanel, who made the Saint-Tropez tan an international fashion statement; and many more of the legendary artists, writers, actors, and politicians who frequented the world’s most luxurious resorts during the golden age.
Along the way, Baxter takes readers where few people ever get to go: the alluring world of the perfume industry, into the cars and casinos of Monte Carlo, behind-the-scenes at the Cannes Film Festival, to the villa where Picasso and Cocteau smoked opium, and to the hotel where Joseph Kennedy had an affair with Marlene Dietrich. Then maps and listings show travelers how these luminaries celebrated life and made art amid paradise.
For jesters and armchair travelers alike, French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d’Azur is sure to become an instant classic and will make even the most dedicated home-bodies yearn for the land of cafés and literary greats. (July, 2015, Museyon) (Purchase)
Praise for French Riviera and Its Artists
“These luminaries celebrated life and created art amid paradise and this book is the ultimate guide to the Riviera’s golden age.” —Christine Gray, luxurytravelmagazine.com
“As with all Museyon guidebooks, the volume is richly illustrated: The back matter alone features an art gallery of the French Riviera and its artists, but paintings are interspersed throughout the book.” —June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune
“This richly illustrated and beautifully formatted work” —Library Journal
John Baxter is an acclaimed memoirist, film critic, and biographer. He is the author of the memoirs: The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas, We’ll Always Have Paris, The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France, The Golden Moments of Paris: A Guide to the Paris of the 1920s, and Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918. A native of Australia, he currently lives with his wife and daughter in Paris—in the same building Sylvia Beach once called home.
Since moving to France, John has published biographies of Federico Fellini, Luis Bunuel, Steven Spielberg, Woody Allen, Stanley Kubrick, George Lucas, Josef von Sternberg, Robert De Niro, and the author J.G. Ballard. He has also written five autobiographies, including A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict. His most recent books are Chronicles of Old Paris and The Paris Men’s Salon, a selection from his uncollected prose pieces. John’s translations of Morphine, by Jean-Louis Dubut de la Forest and Fumée d’Opium, by Claude Farrère, have also been published by HarperCollins, the latter as My Lady Opium.
John has co-directed the annual Paris Writers Workshop and is a frequent lecturer and public speaker at universities and writers workshops. His hobbies are cooking and book collecting (he has a major collection of modern first editions). When not writing, he can be found prowling the bouquinistes along the Seine or cruising the internet in search of new acquisitions.
In 1974, John was invited to become a visiting professor of film at Hollins College in Virginia, U.S.A. While in the United States, he collaborated with Thomas Atkins on The Fire Came By: The Great Siberian Explosion of 1908, a highly successful book of scientific speculation, and wrote a study of director King Vidor, as well as completing two novels, The Hermes Fall and Bidding. (Facebook) (Website)
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5 comments
Mardelle said:
July 13, 2015 at 9:56 pm
Happy to subscribe; Kit Naylor told me about you!
I have lived in Paris and Tours; all things French resonate with my soul and my tummy!
Shirley Lantz said:
July 8, 2015 at 6:57 pm
I reside in Canada – have visited France, loving this beautiful country and all “things French”. In fact, I am currently researching French culture and reading all available publications
I happen upon.
I would truly love and treasure Mr. Baxter’s publication should I be fortunate to win. Thank You.
ANNA V. LAMBROS said:
July 8, 2015 at 4:20 pm
As a French Prof. and a Docent at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta Ga. I would place it in the Docent room so that 150 other Docents would become fans of his work! Wish me luck on the drawing!
ANNA V. LAMBROS said:
July 8, 2015 at 4:15 pm
I am also a Docent at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta and a French University Prof!
If I could only win this book by John Baxter I would share it with my students who have never heard of this extraordinary man and then, I would place it in the Docent Room for all Docents to enjoy reading it! Hoping for a miracle!
Jacqueline Bucar said:
July 8, 2015 at 9:13 am
As a docent at the Portland Museum of Art I look forward to reading this book! Not to mention that I’m a great fan of John Baxter. This is a new twist to his already extensive expertise and bibliography, as if cuisine and Paris were not subjects enough! So excited to see this new one.