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Gertrude Stein, in her work, has always been possessed by the intellectual passion for exactitude in the description of inner and outer reality. She has produced a simplification by this concentration, and as a result the destruction of associational emotion in poetry and prose. She knows that beauty, music, decoration, the result of emotion should never been the cause, even events should not be the cause of emotion nor should they be the material of poetry and prose. Nor should emotion itself be the cause of poetry or prose. They should consist of an exact reproduction of either an outer or an inner reality.
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
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The Best Books
The list is made from an academic point of view. More books may be added or any book may be taken out of the list at anytime.
Books that enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted us
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, 1813
Emma by Jane Austen, 1815
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, 1844
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, 1847
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 1848
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 1860
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, 1862
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1866
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 1868
Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot, 1874
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy, 1877
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, 1884
Germinal by Émile Zola, 1885
The Short Stories of Anton Chekhov by Anton Chekhov, 1888
The Ambassadors by Henry James, 1903
In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, 1913
Dubliners by James Joyce, 1914
The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain, 1916
Ulysses by James Joyce, 1922
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 1924
An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser, 1925
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf, 1927
Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, 1928
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque, 1929
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 1929
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, 1933
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1934
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, 1936
Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie, 1937
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen, 1937
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, 1937
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, 1939
Romola by George Eliot, 1940
Black Boy by Richard Wright, 1945
Hiroshima by John Hersey, 1946
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, 1946
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, 1947
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry, 1947
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 1949
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger, 1951
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison, 1952
Lord of the Flies by William Golding, 1954
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, 1954
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, 1955
Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin, 1955
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene, 1958
The Civil War by Shelby Foote, 1958
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction by JD Salinger, 1959
Rabbit, Run by John Updike, 1960
Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster, 1960
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs, 1961
The Making of the President by Theodore H. White, 1961
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold by John le Carre, 1963
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway, 1964
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X, 1965
Manchild in the Promised Land by Claude Brown, 1965
Against Interpretation, and Other Essays by Susan Sontag, 1966
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1966
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1967
The American Cinema by Andrew Sarris, 1968
The Double Helix by James Watson, 1968
The Electric Kool_Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, 1968
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 1969
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, 1969
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles, 1969
Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret by Judy Blume, 1970
Ball Four by Jim Boutton, 1970
The Complete Stories of Flannery O’Connor, 1971
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam, 1972
The Politics of Nonviolent Action by Gene Sharp, 1973
All The President’s Men by Bob Woodwad and Carl Bernstein, 1974
The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro, 1974
Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow, 1975
Sociobiology by Edward O. Wilson, 1975
The Executioner’s Song by Norman Mailer, 1979
The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, 1980
Follow The River by James Alexander Thom, 1981
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession by Janet Malcolm, 1981
The Fractal Geometry of Nature by Benoit Mandelbrot, 1982
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill by William Manchester, 1983
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 1984
The Center of the Cyclone by John Lilly, 1985
Great and Desperate Cures by Elliott Valenstein, 1986
Maus by Art Spiegelman, 1986
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes, 1986
And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts, 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison, 1987
The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom, 1987
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking, 1988
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era by James M. McPerson, 1988
The Society of Mind by Marvin Minsky, 1988
Summer’s Lease by John Mortimer, 1989
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin, 1991
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel, 1991
PIHKAL by Alexander and Ann Shulgin, 1991
Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos by Dennis Overbye, 1991
The Six Wives of Henry VIII by Alison Weir, 1991
Band of Brothers by Stephen E. Ambrose, 1992
The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, 1992
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje, 1993
Dreams from My Father by Barack Obama, 1995
Montana Sky by Nora Roberts, 1996
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom, 1997
War Before Civilization by Lawrence Keeley, 1997
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker, 1997
A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson, 1998
In the Name of Eugenics by Daniel Kevles, 1998
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, 1998
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, 1999
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, 2000
Nonzero by Robert Wright, 2000
Chocolat by Joanne Harris, 2000
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001
The Illusion of Conscious Will by Daniel Wegner, 2002
Atonement by Ian McEwan, 2003
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, 2003
The Known World by Edward P. Jones, 2003
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, 2004
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult, 2004
Portofino: A Novel (Calvin Becker Trilogy) by Frank Schaeffer, 2004
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, 2005
The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak, 2005
The Girl With a Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 2008
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World, 2009
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand, 2010
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow, 2010
Orientation: And Other Stories by Daniel Orozco, 2011
Books that inspired debate, activism, dissent, war and revolution
The Torah
Bhagavad Gita
I Ching (Classic of Changes) by Fu Xi
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1266
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, 1321
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, 1605
Ethics by Baruch de Spinoza, 1677
Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, 1678
Candide by Voltaire, 1759
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1781
Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, 1781
Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851
Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852
Walden (Life in the Woods) by Henry David Thoreau, 1854
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, 1857
Experiments on Plant Hybridization by Gregor Mendel, 1866
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, 1869
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1883
Arabian Nights by Andrew Lang, 1898
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell, 1914
Relativity: The Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein, 1916
Psychological Types by Carl Jung, 1921
Mein Kampf (My Struggle or My Battle) by Adolf Hitler, 1925
Der Process (The Trial) by Franz Kafka, 1925
The Tibetan Book of the Dead by Karma-glin-pa (Karma Lingpa), 1927
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 1932
The General Theory of Employment Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes, 1936
The Big Book by Alcoholics Anonymous, 1939
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre, 1943
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, 1943
The Road To Serfdom by Friedrich von Hayek, 1944
Animal Farm by George Orwell, 1945
Survival in Auschwitz: The Nazi Assault on Humanity by Primo Levi, 1947
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, 1947
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, 1949
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, 1949
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt, 1951
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, 1958
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960
Guerilla Warfare by Che Guevarra, 1961
Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman, 1962
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, 1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, 1962
Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (The Little Red Book) by Mao Zedong, 1964
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nader, 1965
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, 1969
The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, 1970
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974
The Normal Heart by Larry Kramer, 1987
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, 1988
The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, 1995
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling, 1997
Books that shook civilization, changed the world
The Holy Bible
The Qur’an
The Analects of Confucius
The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer
The Histories by Herodotus, 440 BC
The Republic by Plato, 380 BC
The Kama Sutra (Aphorisms on Love) by Vatsyayana
On the Shortness of Life by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (The Younger), 62
Geographia by Ptolemy, 150
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, 160
Confessions by St. Augustine, 397
The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna, 1025
Magna Carta, 1215
The Inner Life by Thomas a Kempis, 1400’s
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, 1478
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli, 1532
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne, 1571
The King James Bible by William Tyndale et al, 1611
The First Folio by William Shakespeare, 1623
Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton, 1687
A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift, 1704
Encyclopaedia or a Systematic Dictionary of the Sciences, Arts and Crafts, 1751
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1755
Patent Specification for Arkwright’s Spinning Machine by Richard Arkwright, 1769
Common Sense by Thomas Paine, 1776
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, 1776
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, 1776
The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762
On the Abolition of the Slave Trade by William Wilberforce, 1789
Rights of Man by Thomas Paine, 1791
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792
On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt, 1826
Experimental Researches in Electricity by Michael Faraday, 1839, 1844, 1855
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, 1848
On the Suffering of the World by Arthur Schopenhauer, 1851
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, 1855
On Liberty by John Stewart Mill, 1859
On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin, 1859
The Rules of Association Football by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, 1863
Das Kapital (Capital: Critique of Political Economy) by Karl Marx, 1867
On Art and Life by John Ruskin, 1886
The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells, 1898
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, 1899
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair, 1906
Why Am I So Wise by Friedrich Nietzsche, 1908
Married Love by Marie Stopes, 1918
Lady Chatterly’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence, 1928
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, 1929
Civilization and its Discontents by Sigmund Freud, 1930
Why I Write by George Orwell, 1946
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Embarking on a literary white whale (the autobiography of Alice b Toklas) which is personal to me for like serious reasons and I finally feel ready to read it. Here’s the problem however. The way she switches between French and English. Feels like. A bit. To me. Now. Because, of. Well,
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1877 - Alice B. Toklas, American member of the Parisian avant-garde and sober life partner of Gertrude Stein, is born. She left the United States and moved to Paris five months after the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed most of San Francisco. He met Gertrude Stein the day he arrived in Paris, September 8, 1907, the beginning of their relationship that lasted until Stein's death in 1946. They organized a salon in his home that attracted notable American expatriate writers and European painters from Vanguard. . When Stein died in 1945, she bequeathed much of her estate, including her portion of the art collection they acquired together, to Toklas, but her relationship was not legally recognized. The greatly increased value of the paintings prompted Stein's relatives to counterclaim, and they removed the artworks from Toklas's home and placed them in a bank vault while she was on vacation. After that, Toklas often had to rely on contributions from her friends to supplement her income from writing articles for magazines and newspapers. In 1954, she published The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, Mixing Recipes with Reminiscences, and became famous for a recipe for 'Haschich Fudge' that was actually from her friend Brion Gysin. A second cookbook from 1958, Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present, was so talked about by editor Poppy Cannon that Toklas did not approve of it. In 1963, she published her autobiography, What Is Remembered, and ended it abruptly with the death of Gertrude Stein. The last years of her were very difficult due to the deterioration of her economic and health problems. She died in poverty in 1967 at age 89, and is buried alongside Stein, with her name etched on the back of Stein's headstone.
Alice B. Toklas, April 30, 1877 – March 7, 1967.
With Gertrude Stein. 1939 photo by Cecil Beaton.
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An airplane is made for writers: Gertrude Stein’s First Flight, November 7, 1934. A vignette from the exhibition Road Show: Travel Papers in American Literature.
American writer Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) had been living in France for three decades when she returned to her home country for the first time in 1934. As a result of the runaway success of her 1933 book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, American readers were fascinated by Stein; a lecture tour was planned for her triumphant return. With her life partner and muse, Alice B. Toklas, Stein sailed to New York City, where her friend Carl Van Vechten arranged for her to speak at museums and universities.
When Stein’s lectures received robust press coverage, she became a literary sensation; new dates were added to her tour in Chicago and later in California. Hosts in Chicago offered to pay for Stein and Toklas to fly from New York—commercial air travel was novel in the 1930s and neither had flown before. Traveling with Van Vechten they boarded the flight carrying beaded lucky charms he’d given them to ease the journey. Since the cabin was noisy, Stein, Toklas, and Van Vechten exchanged notes to communicate about their experience in the air. Writing on airline letterhead, postcards, and in the margins of flight maps, the friends enthused about the flight crew and about their first views from the airplane windows. The text of the many talks on her tour were published in Stein’s Lectures in American in 1935.
https://beinecke.library.yale.edu/.../road-show-airplane...
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Mid-Year Book Freakout
I’m bringing back this tag game from last year! By this time last year I had already read more books than I likely will get to in all of 2022--it is not my best year of reading. But I think my mutuals have been reading a bunch, and I want to see your answers 🥰
Best Book You’ve Read So Far in 2021?
It looks like I technically finished Vicious in 2022--I was reading it over the holidays!
Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2021?
Vengeful is the only sequel I’ve read this year!
New Release You Haven’t Read Yet, But Want To?
(I ended up reading 2/4 of the books I listed last year!) Bad Gays: A Homosexual History
Most Anticipated Release For Second Half of 2021?
Greywaren 🥲
Biggest Disappointment?
The Trojan Women. I had high hopes for Madam Carson.
Biggest Surprise?
Maybe Gnomon? I was surprised at how I only remembered about 1% of the fic version of this novel.
Favourite New Author?
Shirley Jackson 🥰
Newest Fictional Crush?
I have an Are You My Father? crush on Victor Vale 🥰 I don’t want to kiss him but I do want him to tell me he’s proud of me and stuff.
Newest Favourite Character?
June was a very cool new character in Vengeful. She’s not a favorite at all, but I was impressed with her complexity.
Book That Made You Cry?
Bitch every book makes me cry!!!!! << So true, 2021-me. Anyway, The Haunting of Hill House.
Book That Made You Happy?
Gnomon 🥰 Blorbo Book 🥰
Favourite Book Adaptation You Saw This Year?
Don’t kill me, but I haven’t watched any movies this year :screech:
Favourite Review You’ve Written This Year?
I think my review for The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was honest of my negative opinion without being bound by subjectivity! Which I would appreciate in a review.
Most Beautiful Book You Bought So Far This Year?
I’m going to use my B&N giftcard to buy their beautiful hardcover of the complete works of Shakespeare. But I really like the cover for These Violent Delights (The Nemerever one).
What Books Do You Need To Read By The End of The Year?
It’s quite hard to prioritize, but I think it would be best for me to read Summer Sons before NaNoWriMo.
Okay, @thedreamthieves @behindtheatlantic @cheeeryos @nialltlynch @eljaleo you’re up!
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Recently noticed I have a decent amount of comic strip collections covering work released in 1933: I’ve got a Krazy And Ignatz book, “Necromancy By The Blue Bean Bush” covering 1933 and 1934, the last Walt And Skeezix book, volume 7, covers the same years. The big Fantagraphics Popeye hardcover “Let’s You And Him Fight” covers that year. I recently tracked down Garrett Price’s White Boy, which is really good, and that starts its run in 1933. I have had the idea before that it would be cool to read a bunch of comic strips, one day at a time, replicating the experience one would’ve had reading them in the paper. It just so happens that 2023 has the same calendar as 90 years prior: Both kick off with a Sunday, neither year is a leap year. After I resolved to do this project, I found out that the Library Of American Comics Essentials volume for Polly And Her Pals reproduces the dailies from this year, that’s a strip I like, so I ordered that book.
I think the plan is to have a Discord group I could post these strips to, while other people handle other strips from the same year. Even though part of me hates the idea of taking photos of all these books and posting every day, I imagine I would benefit from reading other strips I don’t necessarily want to track down the book collections of. 1933 is an interesting year in comics history: Superheroes and comic books aren’t a thing yet, but the kinks are worked out of the comic strip, which are going strong as popular entertainment. Dick Tracy is up and running, so’s Alley Oop. It’s the Depression, Harold Gray is doing Little Orphan Annie, and that’s the same year the Little Joe strip, also collected by Sunday Press, starts up, I believe. Lil’ Abner, by the conservative piece of shit Al Capp, doesn’t start up until 1934 so I don’t have to think about it. There’s two other LOAC Essentials books covering that year that seem interesting - one is a strip that starts off as a Dick Tracy ripoff, the other is a proto-adventure strip that features art by Alex Raymond as it goes on.
1933 is also an interesting year for film - That’s the year the first King Kong comes out, as well as a bunch of pre-Code Hollywood stuff. I’ve never seen a Marx Brothers movie, that’s when Duck Soup comes out. German expressionism is still going strong, ‘33 is when Fritz Lang puts out The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse, an absolute banger. The list of top books from 1933 on Goodreads includes Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas and George Orwell’s Down And Out In Paris And London. I could easily supplement my strip-reading with other work from the same era, all while essentially maintaining the expectation that the work in question would feel modern.
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Letters and signed copies of "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", signed by Gertrude Stein and Alice.
Stein gave two lectures in Madison, Wisconsin on December 6, 1934, accompanied by Alice B. Toklas. The first copy in this post was signed after these lectures. With original photograph of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas loose within, stamped on rear, presumed taken in Madison during her visit. Half-title inscribed by Gertrude Stein with addition signature of Alice B. Toklas: "For Bob Fleming, who not only almost understood, but he will perhaps change almost into something else. With pleasant, most pleasant remembrances." From the estate of Bob Fleming.
The second book is a review copy with the publisher's slip and a laid-in postcard/admission ticket from the Poetry Society of South Carolina. Stein delivered a lecture titled "Poetry and Grammar" at the club's meeting on February 13th, 1935.
The letter is a rejection letter in reply to a request for use of Stein's poetry.
**Not my pics. From an online auction.**
#gertrude stein#alice b toklas#1930s#writing#not my pics#historical memorabilia#signed copy#antique#vintage#vintage photography#writers#muses#lgbtq+ icons#lgbtq+
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“After a little while I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody says that she does not look like it but that does not make any difference, she will, he said.”
- Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Illustration by Maira Kalman.
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Book Review 49/60
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
First thing I've read by Gertrude Stein and I spent the entire book going like. Oh I see why people hated you. Yeah sure it's lesbians in early 20th century Paris but jesus christ, epitome of nobody in this book is a good person. Incredibly readable, but I did keep wondering why nobody has punched her yet.
4/5
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GERTRUDE STEIN ET PABLO PICASSO - L’INVENTION DU LANGAGE
GERTRUDE STEIN AND PABLO PICASSO - THE INVENTION OF LANGUAGE
I went to visit the exhibition picturing Gertrude Stein at the Luxembourg Museum, in the heart of the garden of the Luxembourg. The exhibition lasts for four months and is curated by Cécile Debray (president of the Picasso National Museum) with the assistance of Assia Quesnel (art historian), associate curator. The scenography was created by the Matters studio. The exhibition is presented as the story of the friendship and encounter between Gertrude Stein and Pablo Picasso. Their friendship crystallized around their groundbreaking work in cubism and during the avant-garde movements of the 20th century. This exhibition is held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Picasso's death. However, the story of their collaboration is only the first part of the exhibition. In the second part, we find ourselves examining the influence that Gertrude Stein's philosophy had on other artists and designers, and that is the part I'm going to analyse.
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, 1905
Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 in Pennsylvania and travelled a lot before settling in Paris in 1903. She was a Jewish American immigrant, an aesthete, poet, and writer. Her most famous novel is "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas," published in 1933. It offers a distorted story of her life and the evolution of her practice. She is known for having a strong personality and a committed way of thinking. She positioned herself as a protector and advisor to artists and played a really significant role in the life and career of writers like Ernest Hemingway, as he recounts in his book "A Moveable Feast," which details his time in Paris.
Through her combined approach to painting and writing with Picasso, Gertrude Stein developed an interdisciplinary way of thinking and creating. Together with Picasso, they established principles of connection and equivalences between painting and writing. In 1945, she said, "Pablo is doing abstract portraits in painting. I am trying to do abstract portraits in my medium, words.". Their reflections on the relationship between words and images led Stein to develop an experimental and radical way of writing. By appropriating her image and her very specific language, American artists of the second half of the 20th century contributed to reactivating her work.
Indeed, Stein's writings and the cubist movement initiated with Picasso inspired many American artists. Her vision of things in their purity, the exploration of the materiality of the medium, and the use of a radical, essentialist, and repetitive words and phrases (working in series) created an aesthetic adopted by several artists. In the first part of this section of the exhibition, the artists build on her philosophy to express a style of collage and create collaborative works that could be defined as neo-Dadaist, as seen with Robert Rauschenberg, who created the lithograph Centennial Certificate MMA in 1972, honouring Stein in a composition of colourful images and words. That reminds of the playful and ironic approach of the artist.
Centennial Certificate MMA, Robert Rauschenberg, 1972
We can also mention the work of Andy Warhol or Nam June Paik's statue of Gertrude Stein, representing her in an installation composed of televisions that recalls Duchamp's ready-mades and the Dada movement, which resonate with Stein's work.
Gertrude Stein, Nam June Paik, 1990
The other part of this section is about Stein’s influence in minimalism. In facts, we can also link her poetry, especially her circle work (repetition and loops found in phrases like "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose," Sacred Emily, 1913), that inspired minimalists, as seen, for example, in the work of Jasper Johns or Bruce Nauman, who reused this concept in a figurative manner.
Target, Jasper Jones, 1970
In conclusion, Gertrude Stein and her art have given rise to a new methodology that still inspires many creators. Her work is seen as a reference for total liberation, the destruction of established codes, and political engagement. It is also an experimental way of thinking and creating that can be inspiring for our work as graphic designers, with the practice of repetition and essentialism. Furthermore, her personality and the role she played for many creators have made her one of the great Parisian figures of the early 20th century. The artist has also become an important figure in feminism and the LGBTQ+ community. It is said that if she had not been a woman and a lesbian, she could have been one of the most known and respected authors and artists in America.
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I should probably just write my own book about Christina being a cuck and a spud because it would amuse me. It would be like The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas for the Mister Potato Head and His Bucket of Fun Buckets of Fun for Everyone programmatic playtime within the aperture of the Trump era.
I guess it’s the intriguing challenge of limiting yourself off to work with a lot less like Mondrian did or Jack White did with his two-piece band… and Christina is deffo a lot less.
why accept the challenge of writing in Qualitah about life
when you could limit yourself to writing about a potatoed halfhomo cuck scared of rainbows and blacks n programmed by the monoculture to attack the faggots
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are u reading the autobiography of alice b toklas? I read that for class & all I contributed to discussions was "and what did the real Alice think about that?" & the prof was like "Dont know! Not the point!" i wish we were given ANY additional readings abt Stein & Toklas bc to me it just seemed like Stein going "the story of your life is about ME" i looked into Toklas, saw that she published a recipe for weed brownies (good 4 her!) & gave up bc im not teaching myself if the prof cant be bothered
last sentence my most loved approach to university <3 anyway yeah fr like I get that its funny haha and satirical and self effacing but there hits a point around page 200 where youre like...... and is picasso in the room with us right now? like the, Alice is the wife of a genius thing is clearly like, meant to be haha.
me, blood vessel in my eye about to burst: haha
#theres like a hundred million things to say about this book thats good but its all eclipsed#for me. no wonder Alice made weed brownies. id need them too. Jesus#and I mean. look who stein surrounded herself with. yk
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Holidays 10.2
Holidays
Audiophile Day
Batik Day (Indonesia)
Book It (a.k.a. National Young Reader's Day)
Erntedank (Thanksgiving; Germany)
Family Day (France)
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
Go For a Stroll After Dinner Night
Granddad’s Day (Belgium)
Guardian Angel Day
International Day of Non-Violence (UN)
Name Your Car Day
National Batik Day (Indonesia)
National Body Language Day
National Bowhunting Day
National Brow Day
National Custodial Worker Day
National Disabled Author’s Day
National G.O.E. Day (Grows. Overcome. Empower.)
National Grandparents Day (Italy)
National Healthcare Entrepreneurs Day
National Manufacturing Day
National Michelle Day
National Produce Misting Day
National Report Long Term Acute Care Hospital Fraud Day
National Research Maniacs Food Day
Old Man’s Day (Hertfordshire, UK)
Oschophoria
Peanuts Day (The Cartoon)
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
Potato Day (French Republic)
Stan Lee Day
Teachers and Instructors Day (Uzbekistan)
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Day
World Cerebral Palsy Day
World Farm Animals Day (a.k.a. World Day for Farmed Animals)
World MRSA Day
World No Alcohol Day
Wrongful Conviction Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Chole Bhature Day
National Fried Scallops Day
National Non-Alcoholic Beer Day
National Smarties Day
Tofu Day (Japan)
1st Monday in October
Blue Shirt Day [1st Monday]
Child Health Day [1st Monday]
Day of Unity [1st Monday]
International Day of the Doctor [1st Monday]
International Tenants Day [1st Monday]
National Consignment Day [1st Monday]
Peat-Cutting Monday (Falkland Islands) [1st Monday]
Supreme Court Opening Day (US) [1st Monday]
World Architecture Day [1st Monday]
World Day of Bullying Prevention [1st Monday]
World Habitat Day (UN) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Guinea (from France, 1958)
Imperium Aquilae (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Republika (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Annie Leibovitz (Artology)
The Cisco Kid (Radio Series; 1942)
Dashain Festival (Nepal)
Denha I of Tikrit (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Feast of the Guardian Angels
Gerda’s Blot (Pagan)
Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels (Christian)
Leodegar (a.k.a. Leger; Christian; Saint)
Mehregan (Persian Festival of Autumn; Iran)
Noodle Day (Pastafarian)
Oschophoria (Fall festival to Dionysius; Ancient Greece)
Pancake (Muppetism)
Redd Foxx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Sacchini (Positivist; Saint)
Thomas, Bishop of Hereford (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Antz (Animated Film; 1998)
Atom Mother Heart, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1970)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein (Biography; 1933)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Film; 1957)
Burning Sands or The Hot Foot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 59; 1960)
The Burns and Allen Show (Radio Series; 1934)
By Word of Mouse (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
The Curse of Anubis (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #3; 1964)
DC Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis (WB Animated Film; 2018)
Death in the Desert or A Place in the Sun (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 60; 1960)
The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac (Novel; 1958)
Enter the Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1930) [Saint #2]
Fast and Moose or The Quick and the Dead (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 166; 1962)
Flying Home, recorded by Glenn Miller (Song; 1937)
Football: Now and Then (Disney Cartoon; 1953)
Freedom, by Neil Young (Album; 1989)
Ghost in the Machine, by the Police (Album; 1981)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Film; 1992)
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Book; 2006)
Hell and Back (Animated Film; 2015)
Homeland (TV Series; 2011)
The Invention of Lying (Film; 2009)
Kid A, by Radiohead (Album; 2000)
The Kinks, by The Kinks (Album; 1964)
Lazy Jay Ranch, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 165; 1962)
The Martian (Film; 2015)
Mean Streets (Film; 1973)
The Mighty Ducks (Film; 1992)
Of Mice and Men (Film; 1992)
Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz (Comic Strip; 1950)
Regatta de Blanc, by the Police (Album; 1979)
Scrubs (TV Series; 2001)
Soul Train (TV Series; 1971)
Splash Mountain (Disney Attraction; 1992)
The Third Man, by Graham Greene (Novel; 1949)
Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (WB Animated Film; 2007)
The Twilight Zone (TV Series; 1959)
Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson (Novella; 1953)
Weed Smoker’s Dream (l.k.a. Why Don’t You Do Right), recorded by Harlem Hamfats (Song; 1936)
Westworld (TV Series; 2016)
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, by Oasis (Album; 1995)
Whip It (Film; 2009)
Zombieland (Film; 2009)
Today’s Name Days
Gideon (Austria)
Anđelka, Anđelko, Teofil (Croatia)
Oliver, Olívie (Czech Republic)
Ditlev (Denmark)
Leela, Leeli, Leelo (Estonia)
Valio (Finland)
Léger, Ruth (France)
Bianca, Gideon, Jacqueline, Schutzengelfest (Germany)
Kyprianos (Greece)
Petra (Hungary)
Angelo (Italy)
Ilma, Reinhards, Skaidris (Latvia)
Eidvilas, Gervydas, Getautė, Modestas (Lithuania)
Liv, Live (Norway)
Dionizy, Leodegar, Stanimir, Teofil, Trofim (Poland)
Ciprian (Romania)
Levoslav (Slovakia)
Ángeles (Spain)
Love, Ludvig (Sweden)
Cyprian, Justina (Ukraine)
Ackerley, Ackley, Adair, Forest, Forester, Forrest, Foster, Elwood (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 275 of 2024; 90 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 40 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 28 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 18 (Gui-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 17 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 17 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 5 Shù; Fiveday [5 of 30]
Julian: 19 September 2023
Moon: 88%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 23 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Sacchini]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 9 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 9 of 30)
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Holidays 10.2
Holidays
Audiophile Day
Batik Day (Indonesia)
Book It (a.k.a. National Young Reader's Day)
Erntedank (Thanksgiving; Germany)
Family Day (France)
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
Go For a Stroll After Dinner Night
Granddad’s Day (Belgium)
Guardian Angel Day
International Day of Non-Violence (UN)
Name Your Car Day
National Batik Day (Indonesia)
National Body Language Day
National Bowhunting Day
National Brow Day
National Custodial Worker Day
National Disabled Author’s Day
National G.O.E. Day (Grows. Overcome. Empower.)
National Grandparents Day (Italy)
National Healthcare Entrepreneurs Day
National Manufacturing Day
National Michelle Day
National Produce Misting Day
National Report Long Term Acute Care Hospital Fraud Day
National Research Maniacs Food Day
Old Man’s Day (Hertfordshire, UK)
Oschophoria
Peanuts Day (The Cartoon)
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
Potato Day (French Republic)
Stan Lee Day
Teachers and Instructors Day (Uzbekistan)
Walk a Mile in Her Shoes Day
World Cerebral Palsy Day
World Farm Animals Day (a.k.a. World Day for Farmed Animals)
World MRSA Day
World No Alcohol Day
Wrongful Conviction Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
International Chole Bhature Day
National Fried Scallops Day
National Non-Alcoholic Beer Day
National Smarties Day
Tofu Day (Japan)
1st Monday in October
Blue Shirt Day [1st Monday]
Child Health Day [1st Monday]
Day of Unity [1st Monday]
International Day of the Doctor [1st Monday]
International Tenants Day [1st Monday]
National Consignment Day [1st Monday]
Peat-Cutting Monday (Falkland Islands) [1st Monday]
Supreme Court Opening Day (US) [1st Monday]
World Architecture Day [1st Monday]
World Day of Bullying Prevention [1st Monday]
World Habitat Day (UN) [1st Monday]
Independence Days
Guinea (from France, 1958)
Imperium Aquilae (Declared; 2019) [unrecognized]
Republika (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]
Feast Days
Annie Leibovitz (Artology)
The Cisco Kid (Radio Series; 1942)
Dashain Festival (Nepal)
Denha I of Tikrit (Syriac Orthodox Church)
Feast of the Guardian Angels
Gerda’s Blot (Pagan)
Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels (Christian)
Leodegar (a.k.a. Leger; Christian; Saint)
Mehregan (Persian Festival of Autumn; Iran)
Noodle Day (Pastafarian)
Oschophoria (Fall festival to Dionysius; Ancient Greece)
Pancake (Muppetism)
Redd Foxx Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Sacchini (Positivist; Saint)
Thomas, Bishop of Hereford (Christian; Saint)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]
Premieres
Antz (Animated Film; 1998)
Atom Mother Heart, by Pink Floyd (Album; 1970)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, by Gertrude Stein (Biography; 1933)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (Film; 1957)
Burning Sands or The Hot Foot (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 59; 1960)
The Burns and Allen Show (Radio Series; 1934)
By Word of Mouse (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
The Curse of Anubis (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #3; 1964)
DC Hero Girls: Legends of Atlantis (WB Animated Film; 2018)
Death in the Desert or A Place in the Sun (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 60; 1960)
The Dharma Bums, by Jack Kerouac (Novel; 1958)
Enter the Saint, by Leslie Charteris (Short Stories; 1930) [Saint #2]
Fast and Moose or The Quick and the Dead (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 166; 1962)
Flying Home, recorded by Glenn Miller (Song; 1937)
Football: Now and Then (Disney Cartoon; 1953)
Freedom, by Neil Young (Album; 1989)
Ghost in the Machine, by the Police (Album; 1981)
Glengarry Glen Ross (Film; 1992)
The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins (Book; 2006)
Hell and Back (Animated Film; 2015)
Homeland (TV Series; 2011)
The Invention of Lying (Film; 2009)
Kid A, by Radiohead (Album; 2000)
The Kinks, by The Kinks (Album; 1964)
Lazy Jay Ranch, Part 1 (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 165; 1962)
The Martian (Film; 2015)
Mean Streets (Film; 1973)
The Mighty Ducks (Film; 1992)
Of Mice and Men (Film; 1992)
Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz (Comic Strip; 1950)
Regatta de Blanc, by the Police (Album; 1979)
Scrubs (TV Series; 2001)
Soul Train (TV Series; 1971)
Splash Mountain (Disney Attraction; 1992)
The Third Man, by Graham Greene (Novel; 1949)
Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale (WB Animated Film; 2007)
The Twilight Zone (TV Series; 1959)
Three Hearts and Three Lions, by Poul Anderson (Novella; 1953)
Weed Smoker’s Dream (l.k.a. Why Don’t You Do Right), recorded by Harlem Hamfats (Song; 1936)
Westworld (TV Series; 2016)
(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, by Oasis (Album; 1995)
Whip It (Film; 2009)
Zombieland (Film; 2009)
Today’s Name Days
Gideon (Austria)
Anđelka, Anđelko, Teofil (Croatia)
Oliver, Olívie (Czech Republic)
Ditlev (Denmark)
Leela, Leeli, Leelo (Estonia)
Valio (Finland)
Léger, Ruth (France)
Bianca, Gideon, Jacqueline, Schutzengelfest (Germany)
Kyprianos (Greece)
Petra (Hungary)
Angelo (Italy)
Ilma, Reinhards, Skaidris (Latvia)
Eidvilas, Gervydas, Getautė, Modestas (Lithuania)
Liv, Live (Norway)
Dionizy, Leodegar, Stanimir, Teofil, Trofim (Poland)
Ciprian (Romania)
Levoslav (Slovakia)
Ángeles (Spain)
Love, Ludvig (Sweden)
Cyprian, Justina (Ukraine)
Ackerley, Ackley, Adair, Forest, Forester, Forrest, Foster, Elwood (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 275 of 2024; 90 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 1 of week 40 of 2023
Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 28 of 28]
Chinese: Month 8 (Xin-You), Day 18 (Gui-Si)
Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)
Hebrew: 17 Tishri 5784
Islamic: 17 Rabi I 1445
J Cal: 5 Shù; Fiveday [5 of 30]
Julian: 19 September 2023
Moon: 88%: Waning Gibbous
Positivist: 23 Shakespeare (10th Month) [Sacchini]
Runic Half Month: Gyfu (Gift) [Day 6 of 15]
Season: Autumn (Day 9 of 89)
Zodiac: Libra (Day 9 of 30)
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