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Authors: Rachel Corbett
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“poor Rilke” . . . “difficult person”:
William Rothenstein,
Since Fifty
. Volume 3. London: Faber & Faber, 1939, 314â315.
152
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“When he was through”:
Lou Tellegen,
Women Have Been Kind: The Memoirs of Lou Tellegen
. New York: Vanguard, 1931, 80.
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“always called a spade”:
Quoted in FG, 564.
153
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“uneducated, coarse” . . . “very much beneath”:
Anthony Ludovici, online excerpt from
Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
. Edited by John V. Day. Counter-Currents.
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“unflinching sympathy”:
PR, vii.
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“the proverbial”:
Anthony M. Ludovici, “Rilke's Rodin.”
London Forum
, 1.1, 1946, 41â50.
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“Monsieur Rodin”:
RSG, 480.
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“in a violent quarrel”:
Anthony Ludovici, online excerpt from
Confessions of an Anti-Feminist: The Autobiography of Anthony M. Ludovici
. Edited by John V. Day. Counter-Currents.
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“the demands” . . . “to say anything”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 28, 1907.
155
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“Rilke was much”:
Anthony M. Ludovici, “Rilke's Rodin.”
London Forum
, 1.1, 1946, 41â50.
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“I'm not Modersohn”:
PMB, 384.
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“happy”:
To Clara Westhoff, May 12, 1906
156
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“I am profoundly”:
To Auguste Rodin, May 12, 1906.
156
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“a private secretary” . . . “in reality a”
: LB, 78.
156
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“It was not to your” . . . “I understand”:
To Auguste Rodin, May 12, 1906.
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“what should have”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 14, 1906.
157
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“It's Modersohn”:
Quoted in Diane Radycki,
Paula Modersohn-Becker: The First Modern Woman Artist
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013, 136.
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“Please spare both”:
PMB, 408.
158
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“kneel down”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 29, 1906.
158
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“What do you know”:
Rainer Maria Rilke, “L'Ange du Méridien.”
New Poems
. Translated by Edward Snow. New York: Macmillan, 2001, 5.
159
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“This is no figure of a son”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Rodin and Other Prose Pieces
. Translated by G. Craig Houston. London: Quartet Books, 1986, 39.
159
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“This last period”:
To Karl von der Heydt, July 31, 1906.
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“interior marriage”:
LP, 175.
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“I will not give up”:
To Clara Westhoff, December 17, 1906.
161
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“To be loved”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
. Translation by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Vintage, paperback, 1985, 250.
161
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“Since that first contact”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Selected Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke
. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. London: Macmillan, 1946, 115.
162
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“I have again stored”:
To Elisabeth von der Heydt, February 10, 1907.
162
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“My god”:
RAS, 192.
162
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“the space around”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
Letters to a Young Poet
. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Random House, 1984, 40.
CHAPTER ELEVEN
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“in a contact” . . . “in a sudden”:
Wilhelm Worringer,
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997, xviâxvii
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“more editions”:
Ursula Helg, “ âThus we forever see the ages as they appear mirrored in our spirits': Wilhelm Worringer's Abstraction and Empathy as :longseller, or the birth of artistic modernism from the spirit of the imagined other.”
Journal of Art Historiography
, number 12, June 2015, 3.
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“the effect of establishing”:
Wilhelm Worringer,
Abstraction and Empathy: A Contribution to the Psychology of Style
. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1997, xxx.
165
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“in absolute agreement”:
Quoted in Neil H. Donahue,
Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer
. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, 1.
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“Finally, for once”:
Quoted in Neil H. Donahue,
Invisible Cathedrals: The Expressionist Art History of Wilhelm Worringer
. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 1995, 70.
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“little cubes”:
Quoted in Alex Danchev,
Georges Braque: A Life
. New York: Arcade, 2005, 79.
166
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“weapons” . . . “Les Demoiselles”:
André Malraux,
Picasso's Mask
. Boston: Da Capo, 1995, 11.
167
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“Spanish in origin”:
Quoted in Mary Ann Caws,
Pablo Picasso
. Clerkenwell: Reaktion, 2005, 32.
167
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“young people want” . . . “striving for”:
Herman Bernstein,
With Master Minds: Interviews
. New York: Universal Series, 1913, 126.
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“For the majority”:
Quoted in Leaving Rodin behind? Sculpture in Paris, 1905
â
1914
. Edited by Catherine Chevillot. Paris: Musee d'Orsay, 2009.
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“When I began to” . . . “His works”:
FG, 578.
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“nothing grows”:
Quoted in David W. Galenson,
Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011, 115.
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“It is impossible”:
Pam Meecham and Julie Sheldon,
Modern Art: A Critical Introduction
. London and New York: Routledge, 2000, 88.
168
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“He told me I”:
Dorothy M. Kosinski, Jay McKean Fisher, and Steven A. Nash,
Matisse: Painter as Sculptor
. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007, 106.
168
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“fuss over it”:
André Gide,
Journals: 1889
â
1913
. Translated by Justin O'Brien. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2000, 174.
168
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“merely showed” . . . “He could not”:
Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam,
Matisse on Art
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995, 126.
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“the reverse” . . . “replacing explanatory”:
Jean Leymarie,
Henri Matisse
, Issue 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966, 20.
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“a man of the Middle Ages”:
Catherine Lampert,
Rodin
. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, 15.
169
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“At home, I have” . . . “talk to me”:
Jennifer Gough-Cooper,
Apropos Rodin
. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006, 56.
170
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“Stripped of all”:
RSG, 407.
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“wonderful palace” . . . “my daughter”:
Mary French,
Memories of a Sculptor's Wife
. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1928, 203.
171
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“a young American”:
FG, 530.
171
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“astonishing how”:
JA, 495.
171
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“was not among his best”:
FG, 570.
171
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“All the world sees”:
Helen Zimmern, “Auguste Rodin Loquitur.”
The Critic
, volume 41, 1902, 518.
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“no vertical lines”:
Quoted in Jerry Saltz,
Seeing Out Loud: The Village Voice Art Columns
. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 2003, 38.
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“the Professor”:
Quoted in Hilary Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869
â
1908
. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001,378.
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“I have simply”:
Henri Matisse, Jack D. Flam,
Matisse on Art
. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995, 81.
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“An uproarious horde”:
Quoted in Francis Steegmuller,
Cocteau: A Biography
. New York: Little, Brown, 1970, 38.
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“to mark the end”:
Jean Cocteau,
Paris Album: 1900
â
1914
. London: W. H. Allen, 1956, 134.
CHAPTER TWELVE
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“a night café” . . . “overpowers”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 7, 1907.
177
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“I couldn't go away”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 13, 1907.
177
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“no longer so full” . . . “the sort of woman”:
PMB, 413.
177
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“Poor little creature”:
PMB, 409.
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“If only we can”:
PMB, 418.
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“inattentive”:
Quoted in Kaja Silverman,
Flesh of My Flesh
. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009, 72.
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“strange and”:
To Clara Westhoff, August 30, 1907.
178
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“would have been an” . . . “through the circumstances”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 26, 1907.
178
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“I at once grasped”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 19, 1907.
179
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“with sharply bent”:
To Clara Westhoff, June 21, 1907.
179
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“tar and turpentine” . . . “scream the”:
To Clara Westhoff, September 13, 1907.
179
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“Salon de Bouguereau”:
Alex Danchev,
Cézanne: A Life
. New York: Pantheon, 2012, 3.
179
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“color-drunk”:
Jacqueline Munck, “Vollard and the Fauves: Derain and Vlaminck.”
Cézanne to Picasso
. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006, 127.
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“laughed themselves”:
Quoted in Hilary Spurling,
The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869
â
1908
. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001, 371.
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“as if at a bad”:
LC, 31.
180
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“unquestioning, matter-of-fact”:
LC, 74â75.
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“All of reality”:
LC, 27.
181
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“the first and ultimate” . . . “The interior”:
LC, 71.
181
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“that painting is made”:
LC, 28.
181
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“gray” . . . “I should have”:
LC, 76.
181
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“Not since Moses”:
Quoted in LC, x.
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“thunderstorm blue” . . . “wet dark”:
LC, xixâxx.
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“Homeric elders”:
Anna A. Tavis, “Rilke and Tolstoy: The Predicament of Influence.”
The German Quarterly
, 65.2, Spring 1992, 192â200.
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“so totally”:
JA, 539.
182
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“I will astonish”:
Paul Cézanne,
Conversations with Cézanne
. Edited by P. Michael Doran. Oakland: University of California Press, 2001, 6.
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“It is the turning”:
LC, 57.
182
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“the right eyes”:
LC, 39.
182
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“You can imagine” . . . “I know much”:
To Clara Westhoff, October 19, 1907.
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“It was his task” . . . “whether you can”:
Rainer Maria Rilke,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
. Translation by Stephen Mitchell. New York: Vintage, paperback, 1985, 72.
183
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“lines like reliefs:”
AR, 29.
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“through his own”:
LC, 305.
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“This angel is a figure”:
Hans Belting,
The Invisible Masterpiece
. Translated by Helen Atkins. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001, 247.
185
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“in a state of blissful” . . . “For me”:
FG, 520.
185
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“ghastly old ladies”:
RL, 232.
185
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“pitiful, pleasure-seeking”:
To Valery David-Rhonfeld, December 4, 1894.
185
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“like a relapse”:
LB, 83.
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“just as factually”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 4, 1907.
186
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“
très belle
”:
BT, 193.
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“We have need” . . . “so many”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 11, 1907. [Translated from French in a note.]
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“I could hardly believe” . . . “The dear”:
To Clara Westhoff, November 11, 1907.
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“I have an infinite” . . . “I am proud”:
BT, 193.