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...near oblivion that the new show brings to an end. This was partly her own doing: for all her love of camp flamboyance, Stettheimer wanted to arrange the disappearance of her own work and ordered her executors to destroy the contents of her studio. Fortunately, they disobeyed. Her friend Marcel Duchamp arranged an exhibition for her at the Museum of Modern Art in 1946, two years after her death, but it had no impact. Nothing could have been less in synch with the industrial-strength seriousness of postwar American painting than the froufrou, gilt and needling little ironies of Stettheimer...
What mainly preserved her work was homosexual taste: in various ways it influenced Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns (who would take over the device of monogram letters around the frame of her portrait of Marcel Duchamp) and a host of others. The ghost of Florine also hovers, one feels, behind the marvelous illustrations of Edward Gorey...
Best of all, apparently, she liked Marcel Duchamp, artist and gigolo to the rich, who appears to have had a role in the sentimental education of her sister Ettie. (Since Ettie cut many pages from Florine's diaries after her death, one cannot be sure.) Florine's portrait of Duchamp in an armchair, turning a slender crank that raises his invented feminine alter ego Rrose Selavy into the air, is one of the most stylish tributes offered by one American artist to another...
...Edouard Manet. He appears (with Baudelaire, Manet and other French luminaries) in Henri Fantin-Latour's group portrait of the rising art stars of 1864, Homage to Delacroix. "This American is a great artist, and the only one of whom America can be justly proud," said Camille Pissarro. And Marcel Proust turned part of his name, unpronounceable by the French, into an anagram: he became the painter Elstir in A la Recherche du Temps Perdu...
...Diego, "gives you a complete perception. The persistence of the firing patterns over time gives you the transformation from perception to memory of that object." The fact that many overlapping patterns are stored together means that a single stimulus can bring on a flood of remembrance-as Marcel Proust's taste of a cookie triggered intense memories of his childhood, which in turn inspired him to write his monumental Remembrance of Things Past...