Appreciation: Painting, Poetry, and Prose

Appreciation: Painting, Poetry, and Prose
ISBN-10
0803292368
ISBN-13
9780803292369
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
244
Language
English
Published
1996-01-01
Publisher
U of Nebraska Press
Author
Leo Stein

Description

Living well was the best revenge for Leo Stein, the art critic who took to heart Samuel Johnson’s dictum, “Clear your mind of cant.” Leo shared with his sister, Gertrude Stein, the Paris apartment that became a meeting place for the famous. Reflected in Appreciation: Painting, Poetry and Prose are their early years as American expatriates as well as their later estrangement. This book, originally published in 1947, the year Leo died, includes his reminiscences and estimates of Picasso, Matisse, Cézanne, and Renoir, among others, as well as his considered views on the place of art and literature in everyday life.

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