"The Lover's Pocketbook (Introduction)."

Bates praises the joyful and sentimental celebration of love in this volume of cartoons by Raymond Peynet. Calling the French artist's characters the "nicest lovers in the world," Bates contrasts the tender eroticism and poetic depiction of romance with the somber, anxious, and blatant quality of much contemporary literature, music, and film. In The Lovers' Pocketbook, les amoureux de Peynet, edited by Kaye Webb with an introduction by H E Bates, London: Perpetua, 1954).

ID: 
c161
Title: 
"The Lover's Pocketbook (Introduction).
Genre: 
Essay
Page Count: 
3
Word Count: 
ca. 780
Year of Publication: 
1954
Document Type: 
Art Criticism
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