the Surrealists to the Existentialists and from conceptual artists to the Abstract Expressionists. This final episode of Andrew Graham-Dixon’s latest series The Art of France begins with the ...
Like going back and re-reading Gulliver’s Travels or re-viewing The Two Towers of The Lord of the Rings, 5-year-old TV series After Life reveals new depths to our understanding of the human condition ...
But when we get to existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, I often urge them to think about what it means to say, as the existentialists do, that “you are ...
The Boulevard St-Germain, which slices through the 6ème district, used to shelter France's intellectuals in two classic cafes: the existentialists in Café de Flore and the surrealists in Café ...
I divided them into existentialists, which is avant garde, women like Tilda Swinton; socialites, which is conventional glamor, like a lot of people on TV; and bohemians. Once you know who you ...
His collections were youthful and spirited—in just two years, he did more than some designers would in 30—but his fall 1960 Beat show, inspired by Paris’s Left Bank existentialists ...