Gainsbourg - Le Génie Sinon Rien (Livre)

The intricacies of life and work thanks to an iconography as rich as it is original. At the Ginsburgs, you were an artist with a capital A or nothing. Serge Gainsbourg wanted to be Courbet, he was the artist alone embodying the 'new wave' in the field of song. Gainsbourg remains today the marginal figurehead of an irreverent musical tradition, which surveys the language like a formidable playground.

Pushing Gainsbourg to its limits, being wary of mythology, flushing out the entanglements of the fascinating biography and the protean work, questioning the references (literary, musical and cinematographic) and the performances, observing the songs catching up with life where life crystallizes in the work... Such is the reverse shot adopted in this book, which invites us here to revisit the repertoire of the author of Je t'aime moi non plus, through rare documents, drawn from the family or personal archives of the artist. This text was first published in 2005 in the “Passion” collection.
This is a new four-color edition, with a new iconographic selection, a preface by Laurent Balandras and exclusive documents entrusted by the family, from the Russia of Serge's parents to Charlotte's drawings, photographs of family taken in the intimacy with the manuscripts of the work.