Selected Writings of Gertrude SteinKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 24 okt 2012 - 736 pagina's "This collection, a retrospective exhibit of the work of a woman who created a unique place for herself in the world of letters, contains a sample of practically every period and every manner in Gertrude Stein's career. It includes The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in its entirety; selected passages from The Making of Americans; "Melanctha"from Three Lives; portraits of the painters Cezanne, Matisse, and Picasso; Tender Buttons; the opera Four Saints in Three Acts; and poem, plays, lectures, articles, sketches, and a generous portion of her famous book on the Occupation of France, Wars I Have Seen. |
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Pagina ix
... a different kind of experiment was in progress: the plastic analysis of spatial relations which gave rise to Cubist painting. Thus, behind the popular image of Gertrude Stein there came to be, as we all know by now, a.
... a different kind of experiment was in progress: the plastic analysis of spatial relations which gave rise to Cubist painting. Thus, behind the popular image of Gertrude Stein there came to be, as we all know by now, a.
Pagina x
... paintings which, in any event, went almost begging. Gertrude Stein converted this meeting into the basis of a vocation and a life. It became for her the major case—her acquaintance with William James was another—of genius by association ...
... paintings which, in any event, went almost begging. Gertrude Stein converted this meeting into the basis of a vocation and a life. It became for her the major case—her acquaintance with William James was another—of genius by association ...
Pagina xiii
... painting led her to wish for the same plastic freedom for literature, and eventually to write as though literature were endowed with such freedom. “The painter,” said Georges Braque, “knows things by sight; the writer, who knows them by ...
... painting led her to wish for the same plastic freedom for literature, and eventually to write as though literature were endowed with such freedom. “The painter,” said Georges Braque, “knows things by sight; the writer, who knows them by ...
Pagina xxi
... and have known how to say it.” rti If Picasso is applauded for painting pictures which do not represent anything he has hitherto seen, if Schoenberg can pen a score that sounds entirely new even to ears. A Stein Song xxi.
... and have known how to say it.” rti If Picasso is applauded for painting pictures which do not represent anything he has hitherto seen, if Schoenberg can pen a score that sounds entirely new even to ears. A Stein Song xxi.
Pagina xxii
... painter Miss Stein has her easier moments (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, for instance, is written in imitation of Miss Toklas's own manner) and even in her more “difficult” pages there are variations, some of which are in the ...
... painter Miss Stein has her easier moments (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, for instance, is written in imitation of Miss Toklas's own manner) and even in her more “difficult” pages there are variations, some of which are in the ...
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Tender Buttons | 459 |
Composition as Explanation | 514 |
Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia | 528 |
A LovE STORY | 543 |
SUSie ASADO | 549 |
LADIEs voices | 555 |
Four Saints in Three Acts | 582 |
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