Jean Cocteau

Cocteau in 1923 Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( , ; ; 5 July 1889 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost avant-garde artists of the 20th-century and hugely influential on the surrealist and Dadaist movements, among others. The ''National Observer'' suggested that "of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man".

He is best known for his novels (1923), (1928), and (1929); the stage plays (1930), (1934), (1938), (1941), and (1946); and the films ''The Blood of a Poet'' (1930), (1948), ''Beauty and the Beast'' (1946), ''Orpheus'' (1950), and ''Testament of Orpheus'' (1960), which alongside ''Blood of a Poet'' and ''Orpheus'' constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. He was described as "one of [the] avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie. Cocteau, according to Annette Insdorf, "left behind a body of work unequalled for its variety of artistic expression".

Though his body of work encompassed many different mediums, Cocteau insisted on calling himself a poet, classifying the great variety of his works poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings, films as , , , , and . Provided by Wikipedia
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1987
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1987
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1957
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1957
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1988
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1958
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1948
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1967
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1929
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1965
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1923
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1959
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1927
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1938
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1923
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1956
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1973
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1968
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    by Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963
    Published 1930
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