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Wednesday 20 November 2013

Casterman BD: Dallas, une journée particulière




Dallas, une journée particulière
Collection : Univers d'auteurs
Serie : De Metter
Hard Cover
Black and white + colour artwork and photographs
Pages : 64
Dimensions : 27.9x28.8x1.6 cm
ISBN : 2203079444
EAN : 9782203079441
   
Prix : 20,00 €

Date de parution : 20/11/2013

Dallas le 22 novembre 1963. La journée vue par Jackie Kennedy
22 novembre 1963, la date est historique : ce jour-là, le monde entier apprend que le président John Fitzgerald Kennedy vient d’être abattu en public lors d’une visite à Dallas, Texas. Cinquante ans exactement après cet événement de portée planétaire, l’affaire de Dallas continue à fasciner, et le mystère reste entier : même si un coupable « officiel » et controversé, Lee Harvey Oswald, a bien été désigné et lui-même abattu, qui exactement a tué le président américain, et pour quels motifs ?
Le 22 novembre 2013, jour anniversaire de l’attentat, Arte diffusera un documentaire inspiré par cet événement sanglant : Dallas, une journée particulière, qui sera rapidement prolongé par un DVD. Fasciné depuis toujours par toutes les facettes du mythe américain, Christian De Metter a conçu à partir de ce documentaire une série de vingt-cinq peintures elles aussi inspirées par la tragédie de Dallas et son environnement. À ce travail graphique de haut niveau fait écho un texte du réalisateur Patrick Jeudy, qui évoque lui aussi la dimension exceptionnelle, à tous points de vue, de cet événement majeur de notre histoire récente.
Leur création commune, sous la forme d’un beau livre illustré au format à l’italienne également intitulé Dallas, une journée particulière sortira en librairie à la même période que le documentaire. Cette publication s’accompagnera d’une exposition dans une galerie parisienne.

Dallas One Particular Day  

November 22, 1963 , the date is historical: that day  the world learned that President John F. Kennedy had been shot in public during a visit to Dallas, Texas. Exactly fifty years after this event of global significance, the case of Dallas continues to fascinate , and the mystery remains: even if an "official" and controversially guilty, Lee Harvey Oswald, had been the sole assassin involved why did he choose JFK?

On November 22, 2013 , the anniversary of the attack, Arte will broadcast a documentary inspired by this bloody event : Dallas, a special day that will be quickly extended to a DVD .

Always been fascinated by all facets of American myth, Christian De Metter designed, from the documentary, a series of twenty- five paintings inspired by the tragedy of Dallas and its environment. This high level of graphic work echoes a text by director Patrick Jeudy, which also evokes the exceptional dimension to all points of view, of this major event in our recent history.

Their joint creation, in the form of a beautiful illustrated book in landscape format also called Dallas, will be out in bookstores the same time as the documentary. This publication is accompanied by an exhibition in a Parisian gallery.

I was six years old when Kennedy was assassinated.  In 1961 there had been the aborted invasion of Cuba known as The Bay of Pigs.  Cuban Missile Crisis. On each occasion people around me thought World War III was about to start. A sigh of relief must have come as things settled.  When JFK was killed and rumours spread I was very aware of the talk of war with the USSR –the world really was in a panic.

But fifty years on I still have no idea why JFKs assassination has become a legendary event –almost a myth if you believe half the TV programmes, books or conspiracy theorists.  It was a very tragic day and the space age hopes and dreams of the Americans had probably never even dared believe that their President could be murdered –they were still fairly innocent days.

If you can read French well then the text won’t cause you too many problems. There are some nice paintings intermixed with photographs from the event itself and a very striking cover!









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