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  1. Apr 2019
    1. —Stein set herself one consistent task. This task was not, I believe, as perhaps it was for other modernist writers, to express herself through the figural masks of a difficult plot and character, but rather to explore how unsettling, yet creatively engaging, it can be to illustrate the myriad ways a text, a character name, an author, and an ensemble of nar-rated events might be compositionally analyzed and reconstructed

      this is a statment that is all too important to my essay. I think that this captures exactly what i want to express in why gertrude did as she did do.

    2. innovative artistic modernism

      i like this statment. i think that her writing was very revolutionary and helped diversify the thought of art in our modrrnday culture.

    3. The other revisionary aspect of The Steins Collect, both in the exhibition and catalogue, is the resizing and resituating of Gertrude’s role in the overall narrative of the family’s patronage, collection, and proselytizing for modern French art.

      I could use this information to expencd uppon why gertrude wanted to try different forms of art.

    1. The begining quote is already magnificent. I can use this as a way of talking about how gertrude might have been slitley descriminated upon because of her behavior an as a closeted lesbian.

    1. i like how on the first page the quthor states that there can be differtent veiws on different phases. i could use this in my essay to show what i think is being interpreted.

  2. Mar 2019
    1. By approaching the art-work from these exorbitant angles one is suddenly able to rediscover organically those eternal prin­ciples of art

      Im a little late with this becasuse i got confused with the assignments. this stop of writing reminds me of what we did in class. I enjoy the feeling of not knowing where you are going but having the confort of where you are. i think that this is partly one of the reasons that gertrude enjoyed her style of writing.