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...young thus "educated" by the emotions took stage center in the romantic era, when the glorious dreams of the French Revolution-and their bloody, reactionary demise -turned youth toward an eccentric sentimentality. "They found satisfaction in ideals," wrote Madame de Staël, "because reality offered them nothing to satisfy their imaginations." Goethe intended his Werther as a warning to this mooning generation, but the young character who committed suicide for unrequited love became the hero of romanticism. The dirty speech movement of that day was suicide. It was, as Princeton Historian James Billington points out, the first major appearance...
Such literary sta'warts as T.S. E'lot '10, E.E. Cummings '15, and Robert Lowell have written pieces which will appear in the book, as well as Theodore Roosevelt '80, Henry Cabot Lodge '23, and Arthur M. Schlesinger...
When Jeannine died in 1946, partially of malnutrition, De Staël settled into a black period that ended just as his third dealer, Jacques Dubourg, began to find an audience for his work. One of the first to herald him was Cubist Georges Braque, who announced: "De Staël has a true sense of painting." He seemed to be tearing strips off nature, but he put them back on canvas in his brutal abstract cityscapes...
Willed Slabs. In 1952, De Staël turned the final corner in the search for a style of his own. One night he went to a soccer game played under lights. There, the hurly-burly of the action, its colliding figures, its synergetic, bright-colored jerseys convinced him that his search for visual shock must be anchored in figurative art. In a series of tiny oils, he slammed anatomies together like a deck of badly shuffled playing cards...
...Staël painted the thousand vibrations that nature stirred in him until the end. Shortly before his suicide he wrote to his dealer: "I haven't got the strength to finish my paintings." A few days later, he began the largest canvas 13 ft. by 20 ft.) that he had ever painted. It was an attempt to translate his emotions upon hearing a concert of Schoenberg's and Webern's music. He never finished...