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...laundries, bookstores and record shops in nearby Telegraph Avenue's grimy red brick buildings. One frequent stopping place is a shoestore called Sandals Unlimited; another is a self-service laundry where the machines, arranged in pairs, bear student-humor names: Tristan and Isolde, Godliness and Cleanliness, Toulouse and Lautrec, Dun and Bradstreet, Anthony and Cleopatra...
...herself in a dazzling variety of civic ventures. She makes her headquarters in a narrow, 71-story town house on Manhattan's fashionable Beekman Place. White, even to the furniture and the rugs on the floor, is the background -her paintings. There is a Monet a Picasso, a Lautrec. Five Matisses hang in the dining room; Van Gogh's Zouave over the living room couch faces a Renoir girl in a boat over the fireplace...
Despite serious shortcomings, Circle of Love is worth seeing if only for its breathtaking color decor. The camera wizardry of Henri Decae produces acres of gauzy portraiture, plus one exquisite vignette in the style of Lautrec, and nearly always the film glows in a red, green and golden wash of art-nouveau elegance. Against such sumptuousness, Vadim's elementary lechery seems to be the only thing out of place...
Duchamp was clearly cut out to be an intellectual in the realm of art. As a young man, he experimented with painting in the manner of Toulouse-Lautrec, the Fauves, and even the cubists, only to abandon each. He rejected the romantic concept of the artist in smudgy smock and flowing cravat, abhorred the veneration of art given to official "masterpieces," decided that "oil painting is old hat and should be discarded forever." As the naturalists of Courbet's day had proved that anything could be a subject for art, Duchamp set out to prove that art could...
...that it adds photos of Lautrec himself, of his studios, and of many of his models and subjects. Philippe Huis-man's text is thorough but simperingly eager to simonize Lautrec's reputation as the depraved genius of fin-de-siecle Montmartre...