Dance Me to the End of Love

by Leonard Cohen and Henri Matisse

Book Overview

The perfect book for art lovers, song lovers, and other lovers as well, this evocative, lyrical tribute to love and its healing, restorative powers, is complemented by 21 diverse works by Henri Matisse, including oils, line drawings, paper cut-outs, book illustrations, and linocuts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556704062
• ISBN13: 9781556704062
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
• Length: 30 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.8" x 11.8"

Customer Reviews

Way to go again Leonard

Top quality. Really lovely. Nice for couples to read together. Great for the coffee table.

Unique and highly recommended title

Based upon an original poem by Leonard Cohen which is showcased through the distinctive artwork of Henri Matisse, Dance Me To The End Of Love is a lyrical tribute to the emotion of love and its power to heal broken hearts and broken lives. Gracing the picturebook collections of family, school, and community libraries, this Dance Me To The End Of Love is a unique and highly recommended title that will have a very special appeal to young children and their parents,

a treasure!

i love this book... it is so rhythmical and sensual. i got it for my husband on our wedding day. it was perfect.

...Show me slowly what I only know the limits of....

I'm a great fan of this series of books - each takes a poem and an artist, and blends the words of the poem with the images of the artist to create a harmonious, well-matched whole. Dance Me To The End Of Love is the most successful of the sequence, with Matisse's gliding, extravagantly curvaceous artwork and Leonard Cohen's beautiful song-poem floating around, in and out of each other, the words complementing the images complementing the words. It is a beautiful book to look at and to read, to savour and enjoy. Matisse was an artist whose images had all the flying poise and grace of the dancer, and is the only possible artist who could have complemented Leonard Cohen's song. I am delighted to possess this book, and can read it over and over again, admiring the beauty and vision of the person who set the typeface and layout of the pages. If you love beautiful things, and admire Matisse, this is a book you must have casually tossed onto your coffee table - see how many people lean forward and glance inside, and are riveted immediately.

A great book for lovers

This isn't a book of poetry, it is a book of one poem, beautifully matched with work by Matisse. I have now given it to two different couples for their weddings. Words and pictures to make your heart soar, Cohen and Matisse seemed to be talking to each other with their art.