ENGL 40761 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: 27 Rue De Fleurus, Alice B. Toklas, Henri Matisse
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Stein wrote poetry, plays, short story, novels, operas, autobiographies etc. Collage becomes important form of art during cubism movement. Objects as facts that uncover further revelations (like thoreau). Writes only present tense; no end -- only new beginnings. No room for retrospection must stay in the present. Stein studied with william james when the subjects of philosophy, psychology and. Aerobic form of reading and writing. medicine were blended as a single discipline. Relation of stein to artists: lived with alice toklas at 27 rue de fleurus; amazing collection of paintings; Picasso portrait donated to metropolitan museum: paul c zanne , henri matisse , mont sainte-victoire (c. 1900): uncharacteristically unrealistic. Patchy colors, motion, flawed proportionality representations: apples and oranges (1895-1900): lack of distinction between background and foreground invites viewer to stay on surface. African masks; denizens of a whorehouse in paris; sense of african sensibility inserted into european art unsettling; reveals. Cosmopolitan sense of eroticism: josephine baker african-american dancer in europe.
