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"Out of kindness comes redness and out of rudeness comes rapid same question, out of an eye comes research, out of selection comes painful cattle. So then the order is that a white way of being round is something suggesting a pin and is it disappointing, it is not, it is so rudimentary to be analysed and see a fine substance strangely, it is so earnest to have a green point not to red but to point again." -Gertrude Stein
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What is the current that makes machinery, that makes it crackle, what is the current that presents a long line and a necessary waist. What is this current.
What is the wind, what is it.
Where is the serene length, it is there and a dark place is not a dark place, only a white and red are black, only a yellow and green are blue, a pink is scarlet, a bow is every color. A line distinguishes it. A line just distinguishes it.
-Gertrude Stein
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American expatriate writer Gertrude Stein was a high priestess of early-twentieth-century modernism for the many who visited her fabled Paris apartment. She collected and promoted the art of the avant-garde, including that of Picasso and Matisse, and her own abstract, repetitive prose inspired the experiments of playwrights, composers, poets, and painters. "There was an eternal quality about her," sculptor Jo Davidson wrote. "She somehow symbolized wisdom." He chose to depict her here as "a sort of modern Buddha." Delighted by the sculpture, Stein composed one of her famous prose portraits of Davidson, later published in Vanity Fair alongside a photograph of this work.
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Fans of modernism, Candy Chang and James Reeves created a set of trading cards to celebrate some of these 20th century leaders of design. One side of each card features bold headshots and the other side includes a short biography, notable works, and a famous quote. The cards come wrapped in a brown paper envelope and are envisioned as the first in a series of card sets that make design movements enjoyable to all.
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Fans of modernism, Candy Chang and James Reeves created a set of trading cards to celebrate some of these 20th century leaders of design. One side of each card features bold headshots and the other side includes a short biography, notable works, and a famous quote. The cards come wrapped in a brown paper envelope and are envisioned as the first in a series of card sets that make design movements enjoyable to all.
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Fans of modernism, Candy Chang and James Reeves created a set of trading cards to celebrate some of these 20th century leaders of design. One side of each card features bold headshots and the other side includes a short biography, notable works, and a famous quote. The cards come wrapped in a brown paper envelope and are envisioned as the first in a series of card sets that make design movements enjoyable to all.
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Stein, Gertrude (1874-1946)
In addition to becoming--with Alice B. Toklas--half of an iconic lesbian couple, Gertrude Stein was an important innovator and transformer of the English language.
Stein, who later delighted in teasing officials with the difficult spelling of her birthplace, was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, the youngest child of a prosperous family of German-Jewish descent. During her childhood, Stein's family resided temporarily in Europe and later moved to Oakland, California, where she was educated both privately and in public school.
The deaths during her adolescence of her overbearing father and her self-effacing mother left Stein in the care of her older brother Michael, who became the benevolent patriarch of the family.
The Harvard Years
In 1893, Stein accompanied her brother Leo, with whom she was very close, to Harvard. There she studied psychology at Harvard Annex (Radcliffe College) under William James, the author of Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) and the older brother of Henry James. Stein excelled under James's enthusiastic mentoring, and she published two articles in Harvard Psychological Review that represented the beginning of her lifelong interest in character typology.
She later remarked in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that her second article, "Cultivated Motor Automatism: A Study of Character in Its Relation to Attention" (1896), represented the beginning of the "method of writing to be afterwards developed in Three Lives and The Making of Americans [sic]."
In this experiment, subjects made marks on paper while overhearing conversation or daydreaming. Based on the capacities of these subjects to concentrate under these conditions, Stein derived a theory of the "bottom nature" or "bottom rhythm" of her subjects. She classified character according to two basic types: Type I was "high-strung, imaginative, and nervous" whereas Type II was "blond, pale, and phlegmatic."
The Johns Hopkins Years
On the advice of William James, who told her that knowledge of medicine was necessary to the study of psychology, Stein enrolled in Johns Hopkins Medical School, which had recently begun to admit women students.
For the first two years, Stein continued her laboratory work and therefore enjoyed medical school, but during her final years her grades suffered. In an early indication of her rebellion against maternal roles and medical views of the female body, Stein particularly disliked obstetrics, although her experience of delivering babies in the African-American community in Baltimore served as the basis for "Melanctha," a story in her first published work, Three Lives.
The Growing Awareness of Her Lesbianism
Most significant, however, her increasing difficulties in medical school paralleled her growing awareness of her lesbianism. Her sexuality placed her in conflict not only with the bourgeois morality she espoused but also with the views of feminist theorists such as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who argued in Women and Economics (1898) that the unfettered expression of sexuality would jeopardize women's capacity to succeed in the professions and gain economic independence from men.
While in Baltimore, Stein became involved in a group of college women led by Mabel Haynes and Grace Lounsbury, who were, unlike Stein, experts at disguising the reality of lesbian passion behind the respectable cover of female romantic friendship.
Stein had little idea of these social dynamics when Mabel Haynes suddenly dropped her "friendship" with Lounsbury and began an affair with another student, May Bookstaver. In the meantime, Stein herself, despite her professed horror of "passion in its many disguised forms," fell precipitously in love with Bookstaver.
Confronted by an experienced and formidable rival, as well as by her own moral crises and sexual naïveté, Stein found herself excluded from the Bookstaver-Haynes romance. Indeed, May stayed temporarily with Mabel, and both women subsequently ended their college affair and, obedient to societal and familial dictates, married men.
Early Unpublished Work: Q. E. D.
During travels to New York, London, and Paris after leaving Johns Hopkins, Stein transmuted the drama of this relationship into her first novel, Q. E. D. (1903), which stands for quod erat demonstrandum ("what is to be proved") and which was first posthumously published as Things As They Are (1950).
Like her other early unpublished work Fernhurst (1904), which concerns the conflicted three-way relationship between the lesbian dean of Bryn Mawr, Miss Carey Thomas, and two professors, Mary Gwinn and Alfred Hodder, Q. E. D. is uncharacteristic of Stein's later work because it employs conventional, linear narration and treats the subject of lesbianism in literal, unencoded language.
Caption from glbtq.com
Photo by Carl Van Vechten, from the Library of Congress
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Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose
Loveliness extreme.
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Loveliness extreme.
Sweetest ice-cream.
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Indeed a rose is a rose makes a pretty plate
# 56 of The Simple Pleasures List - To Destroy a Bouquet.
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