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...Collaborating with small ateliers fed into von Stein’s environmental ethos; the wood was also sourced locally. “We have to design with purpose,” says von Stein....
...In a chapter entitled “In Your Face”, we hear from George Eliot on egging as a form of protest....
...Gertrude Stein, who provides the epigram that Dillon takes as his title, argued with suitable ambiguity that “a sentence has wishes as they decide”....
...“We read many books,” said TS Eliot, “because we can never know enough people.”...
...Yet decades before that exhibition in London, Henri Matisse had spotted a wooden African head in a Parisian antique shop on his way to see the writer Gertrude Stein....
...Visitors subsequently turned away included Le Corbusier and T S Eliot....
...Lehrer says much the same of Walt Whitman, George Eliot, Gertrude Stein and Virginia Woolf, as well as one painter (Cézanne), one composer (Stravinsky) and one chef (Auguste Escoffier)....
...Several hieratic heads here, including a scallop-edged drawing of Lewis’s early lover Iris Barry and a turbanned, serenely modelled Edith Sitwell, recall Picasso’s mask-like depiction of Gertrude Stein....
...The work of Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, and of Eliot himself, is formidably difficult....
...Eliot took a job in a bank, while Pound lived off rich patrons and literary hackwork....
...Eliot, the Nabokov of Lolita and a dazzle of postwar novelists - Philip Roth, Saul Bellow and John Updike - who put everyone else writing in English over the previous five decades into the shade....
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