Through Parisian Eyes

"For those passionate about French arts and culture, Melinda Camber Porter's Through Parisian Eyes is like a daylong trip to the candy store." -San Francisco Chronicle "Issues raised in Through Parisian Eyes are intriguing." -Joyce Carol Oates "Noted with pleasure" -New York Times This New Library Edition, 60 images, 300p , 14p index, 8.5x11. Essays from her interviews with prominent Parisian figures in film, theater, arts and cultural including: HISTORY AND RESPONSIBILITY François Truffaut Marcel Ophüls Costa-Gavras THE THEATRICAL ESTABLISHMENT IN RENEWAL Jean Anouilh Jean-Louis Barrault Eugène Ionesco FOREIGN CONNECTIONS Breyten Breytenbach Michael Lonsdale Peter Brook COMMUNICATION AT THE BREAKING POINT Alain Resnais Alain Robbe-Grillet Louis Malle Eric Rohmer Marcel Carné Jean Eustache Bertrand Tavernier DECISIVE WOMEN Margaret Dura Delphine Seyrig Roger Vadim Monique Wittig Françoise Giroud THE INVASION OF THE MODERNIST PHILOSOPHERS Poets of the Hexagon Edmond Jabès Phillipe Adrien Jean-Paul Sartre Jean-Paul Aron FREEDOM FIGHTERS Olivier Todd Yves Montand Bernard-Henri Lévy THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE WRITER Françoise Sagan Jean-Francois Revel André Malraux Régis Debray Melinda Camber Porter's USA Art of Love Touring Exhibition of her paintings and writings sponsored by French Cultural Services in America summarized historical materials from each venue: New York French Cultural Center French Boston Library Chicago Alliance Francaise Houston Alliance Francaise San Francisco Alliance Francaise Washington DC French Embassy Miami Alliance Francaise New Orleans Alliance Francaise Hartford Alliance Francaise and The West Hartford Art League Sioux Falls, South Dakota Civic Art Center Golden, Colorado Foothills Art Center Casper, Wyoming Nicolaysen Art Museum French lecture by Melinda Camber Porter at La Maison Francaise, New York University "Through Parisian Eyes is a brilliantly compiled collection." - Boston Sunday Globe

About the author

Melinda Camber Porter (1953 - 2008) was born in London and graduated from Oxford University with a First Class Honors degree in Modern Languages.

She began her writing career in Paris as a cultural correspondent for The Times of London. French culture is the subject of her book Through Parisian Eyes (published by Oxford University Press), which the Boston Globe describes as "a particularly readable and brilliantly and uniquely compiled collection."
She interviewed many leading cultural figures including four Nobel Prize winners such as Saul Bellow and Gunter Grass, and others; Joyce Carol Oates, Joan Diddion, Frances Sagan, Michael Apted, Martin Scorsese, and Wim Wenders. Camber Porter's left over 50 audio recordings of these interviews.
Her novel Badlands, a Book-of-the-Month Club selection, was set on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Publishers Weekly stated "a novel of startling, dreamlike lyricism."
A film documenting the creation of the paintings featured in this solo exhibition, entitled The Art of Love, showed regularly on Public Television stations nationally and a collection of her poetry and paintings, also entitled The Art of Love, served as companion to the show.
Camber Porter's paintings have also served as the primary inspiration and as backdrops for several of her theatrical works. She created the backdrops, book, and lyrics for the musical Night Angel, with music by Carmen Moore and was originally performed at Lincoln Center in New York City. She created the book, lyrics, and backdrops for the rock-opera-in-progress, Journey to Benares, with music, direction and choreography by Elizabeth Swados, and was performed at the Asia Society and Museum in New York City in November 2003.
Melinda Camber Porter leaves a prolific and creative legacy with thousands of paintings; over two hundred hours of audio and film interviews with global creative figures in the arts, film and literature; and her tens of thousands of pages of writings: novels, plays, essays, journalism and volumes of poetry. Her creative and spiritual works will be enjoyed for generations.

Product details

• Authors: Melinda Camber Porter
• Publisher: Blake Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2017
• EAN: 9781942231554
• ISBN: 978-1-942231-55-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Dimensions: 221 mm x 286 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 1363 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Travel > Travel guides > Europe