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...Russell has reduced the art of biography to semi-porno voyeurism in Bohemian meller terms the least we might expect from biography is a token effort at vensimulitude. But Russell ransacks the facts and substitutes his hyped-up version of artistic truth in tasteless tribute to the life of Henri Gaudier Brzeska...
...Lewis and Ezra Pound. The Vorticists took their name with the idea that all art must originate in a state of emotional vortex and their aim, according to Pound was to establish what we consider to be characteristic in the in the consciousness and form content of our time. Henri Gaudier left his established family when they banned his Platonic love. Sophie Brzeska--a Polish writer twice his age--from their estate. He then adopted her name and lived with her until his death though their relationship was never consummated. Unrecognized during his life he suffered perpetual ridicule and abuse...
...spoke only Breton, the native Celtic tongue of Brittany. Up rose District Attorney Pierre Aguiton with an objection. "The defendant speaks and understands French perfectly," he protested. "Otherwise, how could he have finished his medical studies? Besides, he answered pretrial questioning in French." Retorted Gourvès' lawyer, Henri Leclerc: "He may have forgotten his French in jail." The chief judge, François Romerio, asked Gourvès if he had anything to say. "Ne gomzin nemet e brezhoneg [I will speak only in Breton]," replied the doctor. "I withdraw your right to speak," said Romerio...
...their stubborn disregard of what sculpture "ought" to look like in the 1970s, De Kooning's bronzes stand in an interesting relationship to his paintings - as, indeed, the sculpture of major painters often does. Henri Matisse's casts, for instance, served as a receptacle for those instincts toward solid, feelable shape which he could not (with out violating the development of his work as a painter) get into his canvases. De Kooning imagery has long tended toward the monstrous. But the images existed in a fictional space, descended from Cubism, flattened and modulated. One may guess that...
...though not in England or Europe. But what provoked the A.D.A. was the discovery, reported by John Canaday in the New York Times, that last May the Metropolitan had secretly sold two paintings to the Liechtenstein branch of a leading international dealer, Marlborough Fine Art. The pictures were Henri Rousseau's The Tropics and The Olive Pickers by Van Gogh. Last week the Met disclosed that two more of its paintings, a Modigliani and a Juan Gris, had also been traded to Marlborough for two unnamed works of art. Though the Metropolitan refuses to confirm or deny...