Everybody who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein

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Doubleday, 1989 - 243 pagina's
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The fascinating story of Gertrude Stein, the public personality, the private person, and the deeply serious writer.  From her childhood in Pennsylvania through her rise in the world of art, this unique biography examines the life of this remarkable woman.

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Pagina 120
In 1925, for example, she exchanged with Kahnweiler the Marie Laurencin group
portrait of Apollinaire, Marie, Picasso, and Femande—a work of great sentimental
value, and the first painting Marie Laurencin had ever sold—for a painting by ...
Pagina 144
Other former friends felt the same. While serious artists like Matisse shuddered at
the cheapness and triviality of her description of their work, many others felt
morally compromised with their present wives or family. Marie Laurencin
complained ...
Pagina 222
Leo Stein, Journey Into the Self pp. 48-9 It is funny . . . Everybody's
Autobiography p. 60 I recognized a talent . . . Leo Stein, Appreciation p. 182 a
week from Saturday . . . Ibid p. 191 poor Marie Laurencin . . . Olivier, op. cit. p. 69
There were the ...

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I enjoyed reading and learning about this remarkable woman. she was at the start of the modern painting and literature. he had an influence on 20th century culture and she live a very radical life without making it a issue. she was someone that lived our life and her values Volledige review lezen

Inhoudsopgave

Being the Youngest
3
Knowledge Is What You Know
19
What Are Masterpieces?
35
Copyright

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Everybody who was anybody: a biography of Gertrude Stein, Volume 1
Janet Hobhouse
Fragmentweergave - 1975
Everybody who was anybody: a biography of Gertrude Stein, Volume 1
Janet Hobhouse
Fragmentweergave - 1975

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Over de auteur (1989)

Born in 1948, author Janet Hobhouse was raised in New York City and educated at Oxford. As an adult, she lived in both London and New York City. In the 1980's, she was primarily an art critic, which is evident in her two non-fiction works: The Bride Stripped Bare, an art study on the female nude, and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. She also wrote four novels: Nellie Without Hugo, Dancing in the Dark, November, and The Furies. She died from ovarian cancer in 1991 at the age of forty-two.

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TitelEverybody who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein
A Doubleday anchor books
Anchor books
Literary biography
AuteurJanet Hobhouse
Editiegeïllustreerd, herdruk
UitgeverDoubleday, 1989
Oorspronkelijk uitde University of Michigan
Gedigitaliseerd10 aug 2011
ISBN0385263317, 9780385263313
Lengte243 pagina's
  
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