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...Fogg continues to show its Maurice Wertheim Collection of works from the Paris School (Matisse, Cezanne, Rousseau, Picasso, etc.) and its display of Legendary Paintings of Bali. The Bali showing was master-minded by David Irons '67, who acquired the paintings while studying Balinese music...
...Maurice Wertheim Collection of 38 paintings, drawings and sculptures from the School of Paris will be on display at the Fogg until the end of the summer. Matisse, Bonnard, Cezanne, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rousseau, Seurat, Van Gogh and Picasso are among the painters included in the collection. Sculpture by Maillol, Degas and Despiau will also be among the works on exhibit...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau would have loved it. A 48-hour, 120-man celebration of those most basic, elemental, primordial urges in man that civilization tries to contain or closet: physical violence, alimental satiation, orgiastic intoxication and boisterous, lustful fellowship...
...wretches whose inadequacy takes this direction (the reviewer is admitting nothing), Alan Goldfein's waggish collection of dubious moments from lofty lives is just the thing. We learn that Jean Jacques Rousseau put his pants on one leg at a time and the pants were unpressed and greasy. Also, Rousseau lived with a waitress who, Goldfein lies, was allowed to keep her job on the condition that Jean Jacques stayed away from the restaurant. He would show up anyway, time after time, restaurant after restaurant, haranguing the patrons, "a shaggy, dark Swiss freak." As he was kicked...
That settles Rousseau's hash. Goldfein is no kinder to Freud. The great alienist, he imagines, met his rival Jung one day while strolling in Vienna. Freud felt faint, swooned, and sat down in the dust. Jung, much concerned, offered analysis: "We clear the air, eh, Sigmund? Ah yes, your passing out was a good thing. Hysterical. Yes. Hysteria neurosis. But a good thing." Freud blamed the fall on slippery leaves. " 'You passed out!' Carl insisted. 'Admit it. I know a shlip when I see one ... believe me, it was a healthy thing.' " Freud, much...