JASPER JOFFE

Friday, 15 November 2013

JOFFE BOOKS, a new fiction publisher which accepts submissions

www.joffebooks.com

Joffe Books is an independent publisher based in Shoreditch, London close to the creative and digital communities which inspire it.

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Illustrated The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-Gatsby-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/

‘It has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen.’ T.S. Eliot

'Gatsby: The Greatest Of Them All… If from all of our country's books I could have only one, ‘The Great Gatsby’ would be it.’ Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post

‘It's more than an American classic; it's become a defining document of the national psyche, a creation myth, the Rosetta Stone of the American dream.’ Jay McInerney

‘My book is wonderful’ F. Scott Fitzgerald

‘His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings’ Ernest Hemingway

The Great Gatsby is one of the great books of the twentieth century according to The New York Times, Le Monde, The Observer, and just about everyone else. It is scheduled for release as a film by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio in May 2013.

This edition is stylishly presented with ten pictures of 1920s life to put the text in context as well as illustrate the story. It also includes a linked table of contents so you can quickly go to the part you want.

Synopsis

Nick Carraway, has recently moved to New York to make his way in the world.

Nick lives next door to a mysterious man named Gatsby, who throws spectacular and lavish parties. Rumours swirl about Gatsby’s background and the source of his money. But Nick becomes friends with him and learns that he is in love with Daisy, Nick’s second cousin, who is married to the boorish Tom.

One of the classic love stories of the century and also one of the most beautifully written. A magical book which everyone should read.

F.Scott Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald named an age- the Jazz Age, which he defined as ’a generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.’ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in 1896 in St Paul, Minnesota, and studied at Princeton which he left in his senior year (1917) to join the army. At one of his army postings near Montgomery, Massachusetts he met Zelda Sayre. His first novel was ‘This Side of Paradise.’ published in 1920, which made the twenty-four-year-old Fitzgerald famous almost overnight, and a week later he married Zelda in New York. Their tumultuous marriage became an inspiration for much of his work. They were young celebrities of the roaring 20s but Fitzgerald wanted to be a great writer though his reputation as a playboy meant some people didn’t take him seriously

The Fitzgeralds went to France in the spring of 1924 to get away from all the hubbub, and he wrote ‘The Great Gatsby’ during the summer and autumn in Valescure near St. Raphael.

He died in December 1940 in Hollywood while working on ‘The Last Tycoon.’ Since then he has been granted his wish to be considered one of the leading writers of the twentieth century.

His novels in chronological order are: ‘This Side of Paradise’, ‘The Beautiful and Damned’, ‘The Great Gatsby’, ‘Tender is the Night’, ‘The Last Tycoon’.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Great-Gatsby-ebook/dp/B00AY4OM74/

Monday, 10 December 2012

my book "A Novel/Dark/Funny/Romance is free on amazon

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Friday, 7 December 2012

Images

Harem Pants by Jasper Joffe

Buddhist by Jasper Joffe

Thursday, 6 December 2012

Matisse at Christmas featured in Shortlist

Sunday, 4 November 2012

Matisse at Christmas

An art exhibition by Harry Pye and Jasper Joffe about the mystery of great art

Matisse at Christmas
December 8 to 21
PV Thursday 6^th December
Chateau Joffe
Shoreditch London

"I'm for truth no matter who tells it." - Malcolm X

“To miraculously hold together contradictions and incompatibility is a good definition of art.”
Frank Auerbach

Harry Pye and Jasper Joffe are both artists/curators who have been friends for more than ten years. Together they’ve worked on such projects as The Free Art Fair, The Rebel magazine, and 100 Mothers. Ekow Eshun visited Joffe et Pye’s show last year and on BBC Radio 4 's Saturday Review said of their work: "Intense feelings about love, loneliness and fear, anxiety, desire, hope and ambition all come into play in these paintings. Very powerful I thought. What could have been fey, arch or game playing was actually very warm."

Matisse at Christmas is no joke, although some of the work in it might make you smile.

Matisse at Christmas is not just a transcription project but then again - Jasper and Harry feel they've learned a lot by making work for this show.

The show includes art made by Jasper and Harry that was earnestly inspired by the great Henri Matisse. They have tried to make work with the same freshness, beauty, and skill as Matisse but they have added their own signatures and trademarks.

Can you just make more work of an artist you like?

Does anyone know what they’re looking at?

Do you believe in Matisse at Christmas?