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2 days ago · Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, [ 1 ] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life.
2 days ago · Anne Carson notes Gertrude Stein mentions trains in her portrait of Picasso, and writes: I don’t know why trains. Often when reading Gertrude Stein, I have the sense I’m getting the gist and I ride along a while in good faith, then all at once she switches tracks and there I’m left standing, as it were, at the station. She drifts out of ...
4 days ago · Yet outside of passing mentions in studies of those artists and in Gertrude Stein’s “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” (1933), Weill’s central role in championing radically new art in ...
2 days ago · Alice B. Toklas (April 30, 1877–March 7, 1967) was the life partner of Gertrude Stein and they were together for over 40 years. Her cookbooks, which featured French cuisine, were popular even before the days of Julia Child. Her “To Read” list may have included the delightfully French inspired cookbooks of Dorie Greenspan and David Lebovitz.
3 days ago · Yet outside of passing mentions in studies of those artists and in Gertrude Stein’s “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” (1933), Weill’s central role in championing radically new art in early 20th-century Paris has been almost completely overlooked by art history, even as her male competitors — including Ambroise Vollard, the ...
1 day ago · Cope’s book-length publications include Passionate Collaborations: Learning to Live with Gertrude Stein, a playful and scholarly investigation into the queer life and works of a modernist icon; What we’re doing to stay afloat, a collection of lyric poems that takes aim at the politics of austerity in remote and rural coastal regions; and ...
2 days ago · We share Susan Lanser’s view that “Sapphic Modernism” was a “large umbrella” encompassing “anything coded as erotically-inflected intimacies, propensities, or desires for or between women.” 1 “Sappho,” however, long has emblematized women’s creativity and community not permitted normally in a male-dominated world.
