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...want to repudiate the earlier work, but it is totally remote to me," Sontag insists. She has steadfastly become a high modernest in a post-modernist world. "I feel this was the book I was born to write. And I wish it were my first book. "I feel this was the book I was born to write. And I wish it were my first book... I'd much rather write this kind of book than anything else I've written...
Whether or not a museum as conservative as the Metropolitan would accept the Barnes collection, is a question. It contains some 700 pieces by the very modernest of the modernists. It has the bevy of nude ladies which Artist Renoir painted in his pensive way and called "Les Baigneuses," and which the Louvre failed to accept as a gift from Artist Renoir's sons. It contains tortured Goyas, and stark El Grecos; bold, eye-shaking Manets, Monets, Picassos, Soutines, Matisses, Van Goghs. It has many a tired ballet dancer by Degas, many an illuminating piece of fruit...
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