Word: painterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, George D. Painter. The circumstances surrounding the recent discovery of the only known pre-Columbus map of the New World lands and the painstaking research to authenticate the faded document are chronicled in this scholarly and expensive ($15) volume. But the reproduction of the 1440 map alone is worth the price; Europe is as large as Africa and North America is a mere island-lopped off a little west of Hudson...
...become a mythical figure m the Paris art world. His life pro vided most of the necessary romantic ingredients. He was an athletic, tall, brooding Russian aristocrat, a former Foreign Legionnaire, remotely related to the 19th century French writer Madame de Staël, and a compulsive painter. When at the age of 41 he dived out of a third-story window in the Riviera resort of Antibes, his suicide rounded out the myth...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS by George D. Painter. 424 pages. Atlantic-Little Brown...
Unequivocal Love. With this melodramatic scene, Biographer George Painter concludes the second and final volume of his reconstruction of the novelist's life. In the first volume Painter, 51, a curator at London's British Museum, grandly dismissed everything else written about Proust in the past-"the subject has never yet been treated with anything approaching scholarly method." This handsome piece of scholarship certainly makes all other Proust biographers look like dropouts. And if love is the vital ingredient of definitive biographies, then this is the definitive biography of Proust...
Biographers can do worse than revere their subjects. Painter demands nothing less than total familiarity with Remembrance; no one who has not gone the distance with Proust should set foot here. But if the reader accepts Biographer Painter's somewhat heroic requirements, this book, together with its predecessor, surely qualifies as a permanent concordance to the enormous, agonized deposition that Marcel Proust gave to the world...