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Bison (novel)
Bison is the twenty-fourth novel of Patrick Grainville, published in Éditions du Seuil on January 2, 2014. History Twenty-six years after publishing "L'Atelier du peintre" Buffalo became a new occasion for Patrick Grainville to find a central character of painting. In 1845 when George Catlin came to France to introduce his paintings and Indian objects to the king Louis Philippe I, he fascinated at the same time George Sand and Charles Baudelaire who was excited with the symphony of the red and the green in his paintings. In 1831, George Catlin decided to break with his bourgeois environment, his comfort, to leave for going around tribes to save the memory of the Plains Indians, Indians, the disappearance of which he apprehended. The plot takes place about thirty years before American frontier, Western conquest and white invasion. George Catlin established among Sioux and became the privileged observer of their rituals, hunt for the buffalo, Sundance, war with Crow Nation, Crows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bison (novel)
Bison is the twenty-fourth novel of Patrick Grainville, published in Éditions du Seuil on January 2, 2014. History Twenty-six years after publishing "L'Atelier du peintre" Buffalo became a new occasion for Patrick Grainville to find a central character of painting. In 1845 when George Catlin came to France to introduce his paintings and Indian objects to the king Louis Philippe I, he fascinated at the same time George Sand and Charles Baudelaire who was excited with the symphony of the red and the green in his paintings. In 1831, George Catlin decided to break with his bourgeois environment, his comfort, to leave for going around tribes to save the memory of the Plains Indians, Indians, the disappearance of which he apprehended. The plot takes place about thirty years before American frontier, Western conquest and white invasion. George Catlin established among Sioux and became the privileged observer of their rituals, hunt for the buffalo, Sundance, war with Crow Nation, Crows, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |