This publication was prepared in conjunction with the exhibition “Jean Cocteau and Greece”, which was organised at the Benaki Museum (18/05/07 - 29/07/07). It includes “Cocteau the Greek” and “Jean Cocteau, biographical references”, texts by Michel Bépoix, curator of the exhibition; and “Greece is an a idea – The dialectic relationship Jean Cocteau had with Greece” by Yiannis Kontaxopoulos, who studies the work of Jean Cocteau. The catalogue also includes all the exhibits, drawings, oil paintings, ceramics and jewellery, whose common theme is Greek mythology and which reveal the particular relationship Cocteau had with Greek antiquity.
Texts: Yannis Kontaxopoulos, Michel Biepoix