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Julian Barnes: On Albert Barnes, 8 May 2025
The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
by Blake Gopnik.
Ecco, 382 pp., £28, May,978 0 06 328403 6 Show More
by Blake Gopnik.
Ecco, 382 pp., £28, May,
“... paintings – he declared ‘the creators of antique wrought iron just as authentic an artist as a Titian, Renoir or Cézanne’. Perhaps; yet almost all artists, writers, composers and so on, whether talented or untalented, are as ‘sincere’ and ‘authentic’ as those anonymous metalworkers, believing in what they do, committed to their craft, encouraged ... ”