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...Exuberant, playful, insincere, sometimes haughty, Gombrowicz was one of Poland’s greatest modernist writers, best known for his fantastical novel Ferdydurke (1937), which Susan Sontag described as “an epic...
...It is perhaps no surprise that among the western works of art in her apartment were pieces by Francis Bacon (“Head of a Woman” (1960), estimated in the Sotheby’s sale at €6mn-€8mn), Basquiat and Louise Bourgeois...
...Susan Sontag dismissed Surrealism as a bourgeois disaffection (“That its militants thought it universal,” she wrote, “is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois”)....
...His house, too, is at once historic and unusual, a sort of bourgeois Helvetian Taj Mahal in whose romantic past he revels....
...Susan Sarandon, the Hollywood actor, captured this in 2016 when she said she would prefer Mr Trump to win than Mrs Clinton....
...“It was a traditional bourgeois upbringing, but there was not even enough money to pay for the education of all four of us.”...
...“The life of a writer began and is actually quite dull, literary bourgeois. The great adventures are going on inside your head.”...
...Paul is a young, knowingly pretentious suburbanite, embarrassed by the tedium of postwar Englishness and the bourgeois horrors of his family....
...To narrate the overlapping histories of art, Paris and mass entertainment, curators Susan Alyson Stein and Richard Thomson have summoned paintings by predecessors and contemporaries, posters, magazines,...
...There is a moving essay on the blurring of gender in Louise Bourgeois and a brilliantly comic analysis of Karl Ove Knausgaard....
...The day sale on June 30 features sculpture by Antony Gormley and Louise Bourgeois. Eight works by Jean-Michel Basquiat from the collection of Johnny Depp will be sold over the two days....
...In an introductory wall text, curators Susan Tumarkin Goodman and Jens Hoffmann write that the first Soviet photography still has a bracing effect today, reminding us “that to maintain a connection between...
...Ben is faced with a dilemma after his depressive wife Leslie commits suicide: does he attend the bourgeois funeral planned by his in-laws, and risk the wrath of social services, or betray Leslie’s Buddhist...
...But, with Friedlander’s agreement, Zander has also produced the portfolios as a four-volume set of books, with a fifth volume of essays by Burt Wolf and MoMA curator Susan Kismaric....
...Morris was an English bourgeois whose father had made an unexpected fortune in tin mining. He became a convinced and passionate socialist....
...They want to show that they are serious people, immigrants-turned-bourgeois, who can afford a photographer. The effort they put into this picture proved worth it....
...the planes hit the Twin Towers, Rothkopf was having coffee in Georgetown with one former and one future occupant of the role – Anthony Lake, who was Bill Clinton’s first national security adviser, and Susan...
...Gagosian’s catalogue reprints Susan Sontag’s 1995 essay on the artist, ending “there is heroism in the vehemence and lack of irony in Hodgkin’s pictures....
...… Brando’s Smile: His Life, Thought and Work, by Susan L Mizruchi, WW Norton, RRP£18.99/$27.95 Biographers have often highlighted Marlon Brando’s eccentricities....
...As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Diaries 19641980, by Susan Sontag, Hamish Hamilton, RRP£18.99, 544 pages How odd it is that, long before she died of cancer in 2004, Susan Sontag should have become...
...Before the château was completed in 1776, a room designated for dining was seen as restrictive, and worse – bourgeois. Dining was, literally, a movable feast....
...Postwar, she followed him to quiet, bourgeois Czechoslovakia. Then suddenly communism arrived....
...Layer upon layer of bourgeois civility is peeled off to reveal the menace and wickedness of the protagonists, but the detail of their experiments is kept in the background....
...Some are direct appropriations, like his marble double portrait “Bourgeois Bust: Jeff and Ilona” of 1991, a reworking of Houdon’s celebrated pair of lovers, “The Kiss” of 1778....
...On the other lives Anne, a young wife in a more modest, bourgeois household. But for her too, sex proves traumatic: she has an affair with her husband’s friend, Wendoll....
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