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Josephine Baker

English

By (author): Jose-Luis Bocquet

Josephine Baker (19061975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer became the idol of the Roaring Twenties, captivating Picasso, Cocteau, Le Corbusier, and Simenon.

In the liberating atmosphere of the 1930s, Baker rose to fame as the first black star on the world stage, from London to Vienna, Alexandria to Buenos Aires. After World War II, and her time in the French Resistance, Baker devoted herself to the struggle against racial segregation, publicly battling the humiliations she had for so long suffered personally.

She led by example, and over the course of the 1950s adopted twelve orphans of different ethnic backgrounds: a veritable Rainbow Tribe. A victim of racism throughout her life, Josephine Baker would sing of love and liberty until the day she died.
 

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  • Weight: 1420g
  • Dimensions: 172 x 241mm
  • Publication Date: 06 Apr 2017
  • Publisher: SelfMadeHero
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781910593295

About Jose-Luis Bocquet

José-Luis Bocquet published his first novel as part of the Black Series (Gallimard). Since then he has written several other novels for a number of publishers. He is also the author of monographs devoted to Henri-Georges Clouzot Georges Lautner André Franquin and René Goscinny. As a scriptwriter for comic strips his career began in the pages of Métal Hurlant and went on to include ten titles with artists Serge Clerc Arno Max Philippe Berthet Francis Vallès Andréas Geffe Stanislas and Steve Cuzor. He previously collaborated with Catel Muller on the acclaimed graphic biography Kiki de Montparnasse.Catel Muller co-authored Le Sang des Valentines with Christian De Metter published by Casterman (Peoples Choice First Prize at Angoulême 2005). For the same publisher she produced three volumes of the adventures of Lucie (with Véronique Grisseaux). Catels childrens illustrations include the Marion strip written by Fanny Joly for Bayard publishers. Heroines both great and small are a constant feature of her work as in Piaf for Nocturne publishers. In 2008 she pursued her study of the eternal feminine with Quatuor by adapting the texts of Pascal Quignard Jacques Gamblin Thierry Bellefroid and José-Luis Bocquet. She also collaborated with Bocquet onthe acclaimed graphic biography Kiki de Montparnasse.

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