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Bible illustrations were the talk of Paris last week. The 270 pen & brush drawings on display in the Galerie Beaux-Arts ranged from Genesis to Revelation. More skilled than inspired, they were the work of Edy Legrand, one of France's slickest book illustrators. Obviously determined to achieve an atmosphere of truth to nature and history, Artist Legrand had turned his back on the usual modern mishmash of beards, flowing sheets and halos, had drawn lean, Semitic men & women and placed them in landscapes as stark as the hills of Judea...
...Legrand had never been there* but for 15 years he had lived in French Morocco. His house in the city of Rabat (pop. 160,800) had a cellar studio where he worked through the heat of the day. It served as a base for sketching trips made by horse, mule and camel across Morocco's stony plains and into the Atlas Mountains. Swathed in a burnoose, Legrand often camped with Berbers, used them as models for such prophets as Joshua and Jeremiah (see cut). Once in his travels, he says, a Berber witch whose advances he repulsed...
Sensorialism was founded by 35-year-old Jean LeGrand, a dark-eyed, pale, intense man from the south of France. His theory: nothing is valid except sense experience, in which sex experience, being the most intense, is the most valid. Even the Sensorialists, however, claim that sex should have emotional justification, and therefore they preach "multiple love" instead of "free love." They claim that jealousy and possessiveness are sins; that marriage is enslavement; that fidelity is a mistake but constancy a good thing. The great idol of the Sensorialists is that 18th Century pervert and jailbird, the Marquis de Sade...
Does Matter Exist? LeGrand flouts Positivism, Hegelianism and Existentialism, but admires George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne (1685-1753), who also hailed the importance of sense experience, Berkeley's slant, however, was rather different from LeGrand's. The bishop claimed that matter has no existence except by being perceived; that a tree, say, would cease to exist when nobody is around to see it, except for the fact that it is always visible to God.* Berkeley's metaphysics made crusty old Dr. Sam Johnson so angry that he kicked a stone, saying: "Thus I refute Berkeley!" This...
...much more interested in tips. Both the Lettrists and the Sensorialists disdained the Flore. The Lettrists patronized more congenial spots on the Right Bank, of all places; the Sensorialists, for reasons connected with their erotic ethic, avoided all saloons. "France has had enough café literature," Sensorialist LeGrand had said. "Cafés are fine for anyone who merely wants adventures...