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A carregar... My Grandfather's Gallerypor Anne Sinclair
   Nenhum(a) Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro.  louis69 | Jul 15, 2015 |   HOWEVER! That said, i must add that the subject matter was intriguing to me since i'd JUST watched a documentary on PBS ( or maybe the History Channel ) in which Paul Rosenberg and his art collection was part of the topic. Hitler and his miserable band of monsters did their best to destroy an entire culture and its population and luckily , P.R. was able to escape , but just what did happen to the thousands of art works he owned? This book was written by Rosenbergs granddaughter- a star in her own right, about her research into her family and French history of the era. (  ) linda.marsheells | Oct 16, 2014 | sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
"A singular man in the history of modern art, betrayed by Vichy, is the subject of this riveting family memoir On September 20, 1940, one of the most famous European art dealers disembarked in New York, one of hundreds of Jewish refugees fleeing Vichy France. Leaving behind his beloved Paris gallery, Paul Rosenberg had managed to save his family, but his paintings--modern masterpieces by Ce;zanne, Monet, Sisley, and others--were not so fortunate. As he fled, dozens of works were seized by Nazi forces and the art dealer's own legacy was eradicated. More than half a century later, Anne Sinclair uncovered a box filled with letters. "Curious in spite of myself," she writes, "I plunged into these archives, in search of the story of my family. To find out who my mother's father really was. a man hailed as a pioneer in the world of modern art, who then became a pariah in his own country during the Second World War. I was overcome with a desire to fit together the pieces of this French story of art and war." Drawing on her grandfather's intimate correspondence with Picasso, Matisse, Braque, and others, Sinclair takes us on a personal journey through the life of a legendary member of the Parisian art scene in My Grandfather's Gallery. Rosenberg's story is emblematic of millions of Jews, rich and poor, whose lives were indelibly altered by World War II. Sinclair's journey to reclaim her family history paints a picture of modern art on both sides of the Atlantic between the 1920s and 1950s that reframes twentieth-century art history"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The narration jumped around - maybe a reflection of the author's journalistic experience.
Considering the title purports to be about her grandfather's (Paul Rosenberg's) gallery in Paris, illustrations of the pictures he worked with are restricted to distance shots or coincidental to something else in the chosen photo. Since Paul Rosenberg gave away many pictures to public institutions, surely they would have given permission for the author to reproduce one or two for the book so that we got a better idea of what he was dealing with or why he thought that this artist or that picture was so great and worth selling.
She spends a whole chapter on the relationship between Picasso and her grandfather, but it was actually his relationship with Henri Matisse and Georges Braque which seemed a lot more interesting and which could have been explored further.
So many of the impressionist painters are mentioned in passing, many several times. Quite strikingly (and because he is one of my favourite painters) Seurat is only mentioned once. Did Rosenberg not like him and his style?
There is no index and so it is difficult to go back and find what you are looking for or to re-read except by flicking through. For example I wanted to find the first mention of NMR (National Museums Recovery) but it eluded me - was it defined at all?
I have no doubt after reading this book that Paul Rosenberg was an important figure in the art world. This memoir doesn't do him justice and really only touches the surface of the life of this man. (