Vampire: The Scandals of Gertrude Stein
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- čas přidán 26. 05. 2024
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a "genius". So says the New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, the Met and many others. But was she? Largely unknown until the 1933 publication of her autobiography, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas which was Stein’s life through the eyes of her lesbian lover, as written by Stein, #GertrudeStein was little more than an American art collector in #Paris for the majority of her life. The Autobiography of #AlicebToklas is an almost complete control of narrative from the one person who could tell it. Today, with all of the exhibits and fanfare it would seem as if Stein was some sort of artistic contemporary as F. Scott Fitzgerald, when the reality was Gertrude Stein was a glorified art dealer, a medical school dropout, a confused woman from a very rich family who relied on her stepfather’s #Bachrach photography network to push modern art to America.
Sources:
Arthur Lubow, "An Eye for Genius", Smithsonian Magazine, www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-c...
Janet Macolm, "How Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas Went to Heaven", The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
Claudia Roth Pierpont, "The Mother of Confusion", The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com/magazine/19...
#thelostgeneration #lostgeneration #parisfrance #ruedefleurus #alicetoklas #ernesthemingway #leostein #picasso #renoir #gauguin #gertrudesteindocumentary #gertrudesteinbiography #artdocumentary #artcollector #modernarthistory
Quite fascinating.
Gertrude Stein always makes me think of The Emperor who was naked, but surrounded by sycophants. A fascinating life, but not someone one would wish to know personally.
Narcissists and psychopaths make the best biographies.
@cindyadams9264 Do you know "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"? The alien Vogans produced poetry so appalling that the listener would prefer to eat their own leg rather than listen to it. I feel the same way about Gertrude Stein.
I loved this! Always found this time and these people fascinating but I loved how it was put together.
Thanks for watching!
The Stein Collection show at the NY Met a few years ago made clear that the real visionary of new art was Leo Stein, not Gertrude, as witness her purchases after Leo left the scene.
That's a good idea for an episode. Partnerships that weren't partnerships at all.
As a Catholic, there is no doctrine or dogma of limbo. It was a common belief but not an actual teaching. Thank you for the biography.
You are so welcome.
"Limbo, in Catholic theology, was believed to be the border place between heaven and hell where those souls who died without being baptised, though not condemned to punishment, were deprived of eternal happiness with God in heaven." The concept of Limbo has gradually died out. I'm 74 and Limbo was very much believed in by my parents' generation. I, until I knew better, believed in all the Catholic Hocus-pocus... .
I was brought up catholic and was taught limbo was where unbabtised babies went. Purgatory was where sinners went who renounced their sins like divorce and sex before marriage etc. At least from what I remember.
Parasites. All parasites.
Love when I see an awakened person in comments.
I'm so glad that you took my comment and request on consideration and made a video about Gertrude Stein thank you very much i appreciate it 😍🥰
A fascinating and engrossing piece. Impressively researched, well structured and excellently delivered.
Many thanks.
Thank you so much :) Feel free to share!
I love this!!! Thank you so much!!!!
You are so welcome!
wow this is great, thank you!
You're very welcome!
Thank you for all the work
You are so welcome, thanks for watching
I'm fascinated by those times & the lives of the incredibly talented expats!!! As you can imagine I loved the movie Midnight in Paris.
One of my favorite Woody Allen movies since Annie Hall. It was a magical fantasy into the realm of what if’s. Owen Wilson was fantastic as the innocent slightly befuddled character who gets to meet all his luminary heroes. Don’t why this film wasn’t more popular
These people are always around for artists. They're the majority of art and music scenesters. Alot of perpetuated gossip, you know, opinions based on interpretations of other people's actions kind of assumptions without verifications of the individual's truth.. Sounds very tragic ultimately. Thanks for sharing.❤
Interesting woman, thank you for sharing 🤗
Thanks for watching!
Never understood the glorification of Gertrude Stein. She always sounded an awful person. Now do Frida Karlo... I'm confused about the way women treat her as some kind of saint.
Ever hear the notion that the artist's work is not the same as the human?
Gertrude Stein has been a seminal literary force to many writers and poets in her wake, particularly women, into the 21st century, whether you.like her personality; Pound had at least Nazi leanings. She identified with cubist artists like Picasso whom she had a close bond-her writing became cubist . Like Picasso, she was ahead of her time. Her work has a wonderful rhythm, is humorous, and exhilarating in its openness. Listen to her read her portraits on Picasso and Matisse, whom she had also been close. you can go to Penn Sounds to hear recordings.
@@donnacartelli7492 Much appreciated!
No one considers Frida a "saint" but you all who don't know anything about her ASS-ume that. You are very lazy. Instead of going to learn about her, you want somebody to make a video, i.e. do all the work for you and you will just swallow like a good mental slave.
You should check out the research about her collaborations with the Vichy and Nazis.
You can't take it with you.
Never ceases to amaze that almost all of these early feminist definitely never meant the emancipation of black women..or people in general!
Abominable, not Abdominal. Otherwise, a solid lecture on this subject.
Wow tell us how you really feel.
Oh you hate free speech?
@@RadioWhoPoo That is a ridiculous response. You simply don't know her work, on the basis of this video. Who cares about her flaws as you represent them?
Who cares about her flaws? Ummm maybe critical thinkers? Get lost sycophant
@@RadioWhoPoo but I was having such a good time.
@@johnryan3913 They're not even flaws, just right wing anti-gay mythology. More about her personal life than what the video claims to be, '' a critique of her work.''
Gertrude WAS a genius. Read her books, "Three Lives", or "Ida" or "The Making of Americans". Not to mention the operas and plays. Frequently hilarious, original, and moving on numerous levels. This video seems bitchy.
Aww you sound not used to legitimate criticism. Poor you!
And bitchy at you as well. Seems they don't like anyone else's opinion. A little too much right-wing bigotry.
@@cindyadams9264 Misogyny? Stein WANTED to be a man! Read her work then come back thx
@@cindyadams9264 Guess what? This isn't a democracy :)
I used to read all of Gertrude Stein. I loved reading her books from the 20’s through WW II. I went through a period of my life where I read the writers of “The Lost Generation”. It is already known that her brother, Leo, was the modern art collector.
Brilliant, exceptional human beings…and pretty much despicable.
Also, I would have expected more about her collaboration with the Nazis (translating propaganda) during the Holocaust.
Looking forward to your video on that subject!
@@RadioWhoPoo Perfect answer!
Are we sure Tolkas was not secretly a MAN Masquerading as a Woman? Possible,
Indeed, doesn’t it look like she has a moustache?
It's hilarious that men in dresses passed on as women for so long! Stein and Toklas were both males. Use your eyes, people.
Have you proof?
Weird
Steins libretto for the opera 4 Saints In 3 Acts is magnificent. Her libretto for The Mother Of Us All is wonderful. Open any of the 706 pages of the Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, enjoy and learn. No surprise it's 706 pages have NOT been out of print since 1945!
Rich.Lesbian.Jewish. The End.
Looks where she came from ,search and wiĺ find her dark origens ..
Pennsylvania?