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Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was a major literary figure at the center of a circle of expatriate writers and artists living in Paris during the early decades of the twentieth century. She is the author of Three Lives, Tender Buttons, and The Making of Americans, among other works. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was a best-seller in the United States. Joan Retallack is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College. She is the author of many books, including Afterrimages, How To Do Things With Words, and The Poethical Wager (UC Press).
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Gertrude Stein was a pioneer in many disciplines. She excelled in every medium she explored. She was a poet, a dramatist, a lesbian and a feminist. Her forays into the world of music with Virgil Thomson produced two works that changed the face of opera altogether. Their opera Four Saints in Three Acts was one of the frontrunners in the Modernist movement. The Mother of Us All, about Susan B. Anthony, brought the feminist movement crashing through the walls of male-dominated operas that were reigning for almost 200 years.
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The Gertrude Stein Political Club of Greater Pittsburgh (GSPCGP) is planning to endorse a candidate in the Special Elections for District 7 of the Pittsburgh City Council. Jim Ferlo vacated this seat when he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate (district 38) in the General Election last Fall. The Special Election is scheduled for the end of February.
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In his ARTnews review of Yale's 1951 commemorative exhibition on writer Gertrude Stein and her celebrated collection, art critic Henry McBride praised the American expatriate as unique among collectors because she "collected geniuses rather than masterpieces." He continued... that her collection was "notable more for early discernment than for final achievement." In 1903 Stein joined her brother, Leo, in Paris, after abandoning a four-year study of brain anatomy at Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Collecting the works of Cézanne, Renoir, Rousseau, Gauguin, Matisse, and Picasso before they had gained international acceptance, the siblings soon found themselves at the center of one of the most important salons in Paris. Stein occasionally became the subject for artists, as seen in the painting by Francis Picabia that hangs above her head in this photograph by Cecil Beaton, which accompanied McBride's review. Stylistically dissimilar from Beaton's usual glamorous fashion photography, this image captures, with great sensitivity, a subdued and reflective Stein just months before her death in 1946.
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, the youngest of five children of affluent German-Jewish-American parents. As a child, she lived in Vienna and Paris but grew up mainly in Oakland and San Francisco, California. Her early formal education was spotty, but she was an avid reader and had a strong interest in art. With only a year of high school, she managed to be admitted in 1893 to Radcliffe College, where she specialized in psychology and became a favorite of William James. He discovered her great capacity for automatic writing, in which the conscious mind is suspended and the unconscious directly evoked. The exaltation of the primitive mind at the expense of the sophisticated mind was to become an important principle in Stein's esthetic theory and is manifest in most of her writing.
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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, the youngest of five children of Daniel and Amelia Stein, her wealthy German-Jewish-American parents. As a child, she lived in Vienna, Austria, and Paris, France, but grew up mainly in Oakland, and San Francisco, California. Living in these different countries, she learned to speak German, French, and English fluently. She ... learned music and dance. Her early formal education was spotty, but she was a dedicated reader and had a strong interest in art. When Stein was fourteen her mother died, followed by her father just three years later.
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