‘It’s a Very Rich Story’: The Complicated Connection Between Manet and Degas
Thus “The Simultaneous City,” with texts spanning from about 1909 to 1915, explores the technological myths of the modern city that are archetypal to the Futurist imagination: new machines that abolish distance and modify our senses, new simultaneous perceptions of the street, the crowd, and nightlife, the dynamic clash of competing forces, and the... See more
Laura Wittman • Futurism: An Anthology (2009)
Ce sont eux qui constituèrent la plupart des grandes collections d’œuvres d’art du XIXe siècle, ce sont eux qui rendirent possibles la plupart des tentatives artistiques ; sans l’intérêt inlassable et stimulant de la bourgeoisie juive, l’indolence de la Cour, de l’aristocratie et des millionnaires chrétiens, qui préféraient entretenir des écuries d
... See moreStefan Zweig • Le Monde d'hier: Souvenirs d'un Européen (French Edition)
Paris, where he hobnobbed with many other American expatriates, Fitzgerald among them.
A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
When looking back at History there are dozens and dozens of stories about specific time periods where an uncanny number of creative spirits gathered within the same school, street, building, found each other and imagined on a much larger scale that they could have alone.
There is no one leader but rather mutual influences, respect, and possibly appr
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