10 beautiful love books to offer on Valentine's DayÂ
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- 10 Feb 2022
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Whether it is blue flower or passionate, love remains one of the most privileged themes in the literature of yesterday and today. Great classics to (re)read, inspiring essays or art books... As Valentine's Day is fast approaching, a look back at the books where the imagery of love unfolds in multiple ways. his library.
Imagine John Yoko by Yoko Ono
He marked an entire generation with his pacifist values ​​and the now cult “Bed-In for Peace”, the couple formed by Yoko Ono and John Lennon is one of the most iconic of the 20th century. If many biographies have already been devoted to their love, Yoko Ono had never spoken on this subject. It is now done with a beautiful book that traces the genesis of the Imagine album . Lyrics of songs, art installations, testimonials and unpublished interviews… The artist reveals all the secrets of one of the albums that has had the greatest impact on the history of music.
Letters to Jean Marais by Jean Cocteau
Back in the 1940s, when Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais met. Love at first sight is immediate and a tumultuous love story follows against a backdrop of the Vichy regime and one of the toughest morals that firmly condemns homosexual relations. Nevertheless , Jean Cocteau dedicates a major part of his art to those who share his life and grant him the leading role in his sulfurous play Les Parents terribles . This collection of letters lifts the veil a little more on the intimacy that linked the two artists for almost 25 years.
The heart on the table by Victoire Tuaillon
Adapted from the podcast "The heart on the table", the book of the same name signed by journalist Victoire Tuaillon analyzes and questions the traditional (and sometimes archaic) patterns and injunctions of love and its new emerging practices, around conversations enriching and inclusive.
Creative Couples by Angella Nazarian
From Jane Birkin to Serge Gainsbourg , including Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip or Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson , Assouline editions explore, through the prism of art, the lives of 15 mythical couples who have never stopped to inspire each other.
