Bøker av Jean Fremon

'Louise Bourgeois talks, talks to herself, reviewing the scraps of her long life in all their disorder. This is the portrait, from memory, of a woman who devoted her life to her art, a life that was also the life of the century' writes J. Fremon.

Visiting Normandy in October 2018, on a whim David Hockney decided to settle in Pays d'Auge. Confined to his house during the 2020 lockdown, on canvas, paper, and iPad, he dialogued with the trees in his garden, the moon, and the rain. This book is translated from David Hockney en Pays d'Auge (L'Echoppe, 2020).

From 1998 to 2017, Jean Fremon visited David Hockney in his studio in Los Angeles, Bridlington and London. Intimate observation mingled with spirited conversation, a tableau of vision, meditation, and passion for invention. This book is translated from the French, David Hockney a l'atelier (L'Echoppe, 2017).

Fables, memories, things he's read, things he's seen, transposed or made up, the stories gathered in this slim volume have the portrait, portraitists and the portraitees as common themes. Fremon takes the reader around the world, hopping through art history, as facts and personal memories are retold with imaginative flair for the telling detail.

A wry, erudite fable about the first painter to represent the saviour of humankind without his swaddling clothes with drawings by Louise Bourgeois.

A chapbook of prose poems on existence and the self, with French on facing pages