Prisms And Rainbows: Michel Butor's Collaborations With Jacques Monory, Jiri Kolar, and Pierre Alechinsky

by Elinor S. Miller, Pierre Alechinsky

Michel Butor's text is the rainbow, and the works of three visual artists are the prisms in this study of Butor's collaborations in which he has claimed that the artists gave him "access to other rooms in his imagination." Miller (humanities and social sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U.) focuses on collaborations in which the artworks preceded and influenced Butor's texts, providing insight into Butor's concepts of collaboration. Miller finds Butor's poetry, prose, harmony, and humor demonstrating his love of unspoiled nature, his concern for the oppressed and dispossessed, and his notions of the range and diversity of man's inhumanity to man. The text is complemented by 74 black and white illustrations. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

239 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2003

About the author

Elinor S. Miller (1931–2004) was a scholar of French literature. She taught at institutions including Shimer College and Embry-Riddle University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1966, while teaching at Shimer College and raising four children. She published two works on French novelist Michel Butor, the first a translation titled Frontiers (1989) and the second a study of Butor's collaborations with other writers titled Prisms and Rainbows (2004). (from Shimer College Wiki)