Gertrude Stein…those outside the literary world may have heard of her. Those inside may have even read her. But this early 20th century writer is as elusive, as erudite, as inaccessible as Joyce or Beckett. She didn’t so much write as experiment with words. Perhaps her most enduring legacy is “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Because really, a rose is really just a rose. Or is it more?
Stein, an expatriate who lived in France for most of her life, hosted the literati and the artistic at the home she shared with her lifetime partner, Alice B. Toklas. Her most notable guests included writers Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway and artists Picasso and Matisse.
Stein was a leader in the literary modernist movement, an era born out of the destruction of World War I and charac...
Gertrude Stein…those outside the literary world may have heard of her. Those inside may have even read her. But this early 20th century writer is as elusive, as erudite, as inaccessible as Joyce or Beckett. She didn’t so much write as experiment with words. Perhaps her most enduring legacy is “A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” Because really, a rose is really just a rose. Or is it more?
Stein, an expatriate who lived in France for most of her life, hosted the literati and the artistic at the home she shared with her lifetime partner, Alice B. Toklas. Her most notable guests included writers Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway and artists Picasso and Matisse.
Stein was a leader in the literary modernist movement, an era born out of the destruction of World War I and charac...
Onyamarks was published in 1972. There are some 150 hardcover editions left. It is a testament that reflects an artist's view of America in the 1960's. It is a 71-page sketch pad, a footnote to a time of passion and rebellion, to a time that is now buried, as the lost book was buried and passed--without eulogy or recognition; a work of realization, of poetry, of art unrealized. Download now.
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Onyamarks1972: The Lost Book Resurrected.
By: Kenneth Francis Dewey
Onyamarks was published in 1972. There are some 150 hardcover editions left. It is a testament that reflects an artist's view of America in the 1960's. It is a 71-page sketch pad, a footnote to a time of passion and rebellion, to a time that is now buried, as the lost book was buried and passed--without eulogy or recognition; a work of realization, of poetry, of art unrealized. Download now.
A History of Art in Ancient Egypt
By: Perrot and Chipiez
Early Egyptian art reviewed and discussed comprehensively