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PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer...
PROUST: THE LATER YEARS, by George D. Painter. In this second volume, Painter completes his magnificently paced reconstruction of the life of Marcel Proust, in which the novelist's sexual deviation is discussed freely without de-emphasizing his worth as a writer. While sculpting the three-dimensional figure of Proust, Poet and British Museum Curator Painter also found time to help authenticate The Vinland Map (see below...
...VINLAND MAP AND THE TARTAR RELATION, by Thomas E. Marston, R. A. Skelton, and George D. Painter. Anyone who is interested in the controversy over whether Christopher Columbus was the true discoverer of the New World can dip into this pedantic tome for $15. Prepared by British Museum and Yale scholars who recently unearthed and authenticated a 1440 map that shows Greenland and a distorted North American continent, the book credits Leif Ericsson with a pre-Columbian look at the American shore...
...Grand Manner"-sharply outlined bulks interrupted by thin, evanescent cuffs, ruffles and fluttery papers. The painting underlines the irony of Copley's dilemma. As is documented by a current show * on the 150th anniversary of the artist's death, he was the first great American painter, but his very quest for art destroyed that vision...
...years before the Revolution, Sir Joshua Reynolds had seen Copley's Boy with Squirrel in London, had it hung at the Society of Artists without knowing the painter's correct name. Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look. Not until the eve of the Revolution did Copley, accused of being a Tory sympathizer, dare risk ocean passage. He left behind him three houses and 20 acres on Beacon Hill. Copley never returned to America...