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 xiii
... called Gertrude Stein's practice “art by subtraction,” a phrase that expresses well the literal and merely negative aspect of her work at its least effective. Mr. B L. Reid has made Burke's phrase the title of a hostile study of ...
... called Gertrude Stein's practice “art by subtraction,” a phrase that expresses well the literal and merely negative aspect of her work at its least effective. Mr. B L. Reid has made Burke's phrase the title of a hostile study of ...
Pagina xix
... called “difficult” works that she owes her world-wide celebrity. There is more direct testimony regarding her experiences with the GIs in her letters to me. On November 26, 1944, after the coming of the Americans, an event excitingly ...
... called “difficult” works that she owes her world-wide celebrity. There is more direct testimony regarding her experiences with the GIs in her letters to me. On November 26, 1944, after the coming of the Americans, an event excitingly ...
Pagina xxv
... called “difficult” manner is represented together with two essays attempting to explain this manner and, of course, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas explains pretty nearly everything to everybody. Dear Gertrude, may I do a little ...
... called “difficult” manner is represented together with two essays attempting to explain this manner and, of course, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas explains pretty nearly everything to everybody. Dear Gertrude, may I do a little ...
Pagina 6
... called the heroic age of cubism. I remember not long ago hearing Picasso and Gertrude Stein talking about various things that had happened at that time, one of them said but all that could not have happened in that one year, oh said the ...
... called the heroic age of cubism. I remember not long ago hearing Picasso and Gertrude Stein talking about various things that had happened at that time, one of them said but all that could not have happened in that one year, oh said the ...
Pagina 11
... called them at that time walked in. He, small, quick moving but not restless, his eyes having a strange faculty of opening wide and drinking in what he wished to see. He had the isolation and movement of the head of a bull-fighter at ...
... called them at that time walked in. He, small, quick moving but not restless, his eyes having a strange faculty of opening wide and drinking in what he wished to see. He had the isolation and movement of the head of a bull-fighter at ...
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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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