Mother
Wendy Steiner, 19 October 1995
Gertrude Stein in Words and Pictures
by Renate Stendhal.
Thames and Hudson, 286 pp., £14.95, March 1995,0 500 27832 6 Show More
by Renate Stendhal.
Thames and Hudson, 286 pp., £14.95, March 1995,
‘Favoured Strangers’: Gertrude Stein and Her Family
by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Rutgers, 346 pp., $34.95, August 1995,0 8135 2169 6 Show More
by Linda Wagner-Martin.
Rutgers, 346 pp., $34.95, August 1995,
“... Bergson and Benjamin. With her repetitions and outrageous banalities, she is a clear forerunner of Andy Warhol, and though she didn’t become really famous until she was in her fifties, her fame has certainly lasted longer than fifteen minutes. Alone among the literary avant garde she has entered popular idiom and not only with a ‘Rose is a rose is a ... ”