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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
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... a few years before Freud wrote them down), his toxic masculinity and coarseness of word and deed. Blake Gopnik observes that ‘the power he sought, in all things, at all times, had to be a cover for a psyche that always felt powerless.’ For years he had sought the backing of a university as collaborator and eventually inheritor of his collection. Many ...

Loafing with the Sissies

Colm Tóibín: The Trials of Andy Warhol, 10 September 2020

Warhol: A Life as Art 
by Blake Gopnik.
Allen Lane, 931 pp., £35, March, 978 0 241 00338 1
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... Dance. ‘A perfectly normal child became a mess of writhing limbs and uncontrollable grunts,’ Blake Gopnik writes. Recent scientific studies have shown ‘a correlation between rheumatic fever in children and adult psychiatric problems such as obsessive-compulsive behaviours and the severe body-image issues of what’s now called body dysmorphia ...

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