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...dancers, brightly painted clowns, seedy nightclubs and crowded bars became his subjects. However, to focus solely on Lautrec’s widely celebrated prints would neglect a critical component of the artist’s repertoire and misrepresent his view of the avant-garde, glitzy world of late nineteenth-century Paris...
...Fogg’s Wertheim collection to shed some light on an aspect of Toulouse Lautrec’s repertoire that until recently has been overlooked. Previously, his more conventional, intimate portraits were considered “student works, illustrations of popular song, or demonstrations of social issues in nineteenth-century Paris,” Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator of Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Fogg, writes in the show’s essay. By contrast, this exhibition seeks to allow the viewer to see Toulouse Lautrec’s portraits untainted by his more famous prints...
...light of the success of films such as Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!, flamboyance, debauchery and decadence have characterized our concept of late nineteenth-century Paris—an impression epitomized by Lautrec’s vibrant prints of that period. Examining Toulouse Lautrec’s lesser-known portraits, however, sheds new light on the essence of the individuals who constitute that world...
...addicted smokers. Retailers should be harshly punished for selling to minors, demand proof of age and prohibit vending machine sales. But state governments are not making serious efforts to implement these changes because to do so would mean losing future tax revenue crucial to finance state programs. Even the nineteenth-century French ruler Napoleon III, who was urged to ban tobacco, once remarked, “This vice brings in 100 million francs in taxes every year. I will certainly forbid it at once—as soon as you can name a virtue that brings in as much revenue...
...trying to do is lay out in a sense what I consider to be the central logic of Darwinian theory, what are the few essential postulates. I show how in the first half, the historical half, how the subject has always been a subject of debate, even in the nineteenth century, and then the second half is devoted to how I think revisions need to be made to all three central postulates...