"Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories."
2012; Oxford University Press; Volume: 99; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jas087
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Fashion and Cultural Textiles
Resumo“Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories.” Contemporary Jewish Museum. San Francisco, Calif., and The National Portrait Gallery. Washington, D.C. http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/stein/intro.html. Traveling exhibition, May 12–Sept. 6, 2011 at Contemporary Jewish Museum; Oct. 14, 2011–Jan. 22, 2012 at National Portrait Gallery. Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, curators. Gertrude Stein liked looking, seeing, naming, and describing (if only obliquely). She also enjoyed comfort and collaboration. These multilayered activities and qualities, which were central both to her writing and living, formed the intertwined themes of this visually engaging, historically complex exhibition. Curated by the art historians Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, it was shown first at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco and then traveled to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., in 2011–2012. Although Stein lived most of her adult life in Paris, she repeatedly affirmed her identity as an American, saying that “America is my country...
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