Download PDF Letters to Camondo By Edmund de Waal
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Ebook About 'Consistently illuminating... considered, compassionate and appreciative... This book is a wonderful tribute to a family and to an idea' Guardian63 rue de Monceau, ParisDear friend, As you may have guessed by now, I am not in your house by accident. I know your street rather well. Count Moïse de Camondo lived a few doors away from Edmund de Waal's forebears, the Ephrussi, first encountered in his bestselling memoir The Hare with Amber Eyes. Like the Ephrussi, the Camondos were part of belle époque high society. They were also targets of anti-semitism.Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with the greatest private collection of French eighteenth-century art for his son to inherit. But when Nissim was killed in the First World War, it became a memorial and, on the Count's death, was bequeathed to France. The Musée Nissim de Camondo has remained unchanged since 1936. Edmund de Waal explores the lavish rooms and detailed archives and uncovers new layers to the family story. In a haunting series of letters addressed to the Count, he tells us what happened next.'Letters to Camondo immerses you in another age... de Waal creates a dazzling picture of what it means to live graciously' Financial Times'Subtle and thoughtful and nuanced and quiet. It is demanding but rewarding' The TimesBook Letters to Camondo Review :
This is my first de Waal book, but it won't be my last (the other 2 are on order already).A lot of the books I buy go to a TBR pile, and sit there for some time before I (hopefully) finally get to them. This arrived Sunday, and I had finished this short tome Tuesday night.de Waal is a highly regarded potter, whose porcelain works are often presented as multiple, rather than lone, items.He writes about family, and decorative arts, and history. Particularly the Jewish side of his family, and their porcelain collection.Here we have a short book, in letters, about the family, house and arts collection of Count Moise de Camondo. A family of Leventine Jews who relocated to Paris in the late 19th Century. It is also a valuable introduction to the history of anti-Semitism in France. de Wall presents us with multiple examples of how the family tried to integrate into French society (organizations, money, his son's life - even his own house, to be used as a museum after his death!), but were never found to be "French" enough.The last third of the book is plainly presented by date and event and fact regarding the demise of the family (and all other Jews) under the Nazi regime in France. He calls what happens to this family (who lived near his own mother's family, and who were distantly related as well - he jokes about how convoluted a Family Tree would be, especially if it included lovers and mistresses!) what it was. They did not "pass" or "die" - they were murdered in the Holocaust.One of the last chapters (nearly all the letters are only 1-3 pp long) traces the ownership of a Renoir portrait of one of the young girls in 1880. Ironically, Goering owned this beautiful portrait of a young, Jewish girl at one point!The physical book itself is wonderful in-hand. FSG did a great job. Thick, glossy pages - signatures sewn in. Well illustratd. Further Reading, Notes, and identification of the illustrations.The use of letters to present this story works well. He skips about a bit, but in the end it is a chronological presentation. About decorative arts, family, France, and anti-Semitism in Europe.Well, worth a read - quietly sad. A slim volume , Letters to Camondo combines biographical sketches , historical context and ruminations on collecting , museum display , identity, human and institutional fragility, as well as the weight of family history. The epistolary style allows de Waal to integrate his thoughts , feeling and experiences related to the objective portrait and biography he is writing . There are resonances of Peter Drucker's structure for his -also remarkable- autobiographical Adventures of a Bystander ; but I cannot think of a book I have read quite like it.Another artist's touch, the pages and printing are extraordinarily high quality to do justice to the illustrations. Read Online Letters to Camondo Download Letters to Camondo Letters to Camondo PDF Letters to Camondo Mobi Free Reading Letters to Camondo Download Free Pdf Letters to Camondo PDF Online Letters to Camondo Mobi Online Letters to Camondo Reading Online Letters to Camondo Read Online Edmund de Waal Download Edmund de Waal Edmund de Waal PDF Edmund de Waal Mobi Free Reading Edmund de Waal Download Free Pdf Edmund de Waal PDF Online Edmund de Waal Mobi Online Edmund de Waal Reading Online Edmund de WaalRead Online Bright Familiar: a Dark Fantasy Romance (Bonds of Magic Book 2) By Jeffe Kennedy
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