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The Musicians by Jean-Jacques Sempe (1987-01-09) Paperback Bunko – January 1, 1812

by Jean-Jacques Sempé (Author)
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01K161MJ0
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Workman Publishing Company (January 1, 1812)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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royhinckley
5.0 out of 5 stars Clever, Subtle, On the Mark
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2011
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I love all of Sempe's works, but as a professional musician this one really hits home. I've framed and hung most of the pages around the apartment. He obviously was or knew a lot of musicians. His illustrations are right on. Each print tells a story about the musician's life. My favorites: a scene filled with ostentatious aristocrats arriving at a palatial concert hall in taxis, limos, tuxes and fur coats. Across the square the performers make their way to the hall, a trio, carrying their own instruments, dressed in street cloths. It says so much about societies relationship with music and musicians. I once took Bobby McFerrin to dinner just before a concert. We were both in Levis and t-shirts. We couldn't get a table. All those people were coming to his concert. Another shows a professor's studio filled with a grand piano, busts, high ceilings and windows. Dwarfed by all this is a small girl with a violin in a determined stance, intent on becoming a musician. It's the little touches; her coat and satchel on the table, obviously her weekly lesson. The cover is very simple, just a girl sitting at a piano. But the more you look, the small studio apartment, cloths strewn about, the content cat, the skates, messy bed, date book, the city through the window, waiting to be conquered. All of this fades into the background as she interacts with her instrument. Is she a student (the pile of music on top)? A budding professional? Or just escaping her job as a waitress?
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cartoonista
5.0 out of 5 stars If you don't know Sempe, you should
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2008
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The artist / cartoonist / illustrator J.J. Sempe may not be familiar to many here in the US, but he is beloved in France. Here, however, he should be well known as a contributor to New Yorker magazine... having done dozens of covers over the years. This is one of his best book collections, with charming, insightful illustrations of the world of musicians. He gracefully peers into a moment in life and captures it with a few perfect lines. Subtle, beautiful, sweet. The color pages add a lot... worth every penny in either hardback, if you can find it, or paper.
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James A. Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Genius before your eyes
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2015
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Incredible talent. So much done with so few strokes. Genius before your eyes.
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Iris
5.0 out of 5 stars The musicians by Sempe
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2012
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Watching at Sempe's drawings somethings make us feel we were reading through its trails. Impressive sensibility to describe feelings and funy situations un peu de Paris et d'ailleurs
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pollywogish
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2015
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Wonderful book
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otto0935@yahoo.com
5.0 out of 5 stars sempe and music
Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 1999
I'm not sure that is the book I'm looking for. But I do know one thing about Sempe's relationship with music. I'd like to see his picture with simple line and deeply reflection from his mind. I can find that he is good in playing music than his paint. That's what I think about Sempe.
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Maha Upasika Gotami
5.0 out of 5 stars Insightful observations of musicians.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2009
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Elegantly produced book ideal for a present either to a musician or an artist, but also as a book to dip into when you need cheering up.
It is not a book of cartoons, in the sense of jokes, but the artist in Sempe is beautifully to the fore. Each page is an observation of some aspect of a musician's life and the content suggests that it was a life he knew intimately. Some are quick line drawings, some pen and ink washes, some more elaborate. There is the teacher with the piano pupil, or the string quartet practising, the trio waiting in the deserted midnight street, the child with ambitious parents gazing hopelessly at a score by the child Mozart... Each page is a gem of acute, but never cruel, observation tres sympathetique.
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