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The Art of Rivalry
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art | Sebastian Smee
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"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative innovations"--
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kspenmoll
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1) ☕️☕️☕️🥃🍷🫖🍿🧀🥜🍏-always a drink & breakfast or snack
2) tagged book, The Art of Rivalry

TheSpineView Thanks for playing! 4mo
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kspenmoll
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I picked up this fascinating, informative book at the Met today. On the train home I read about the artists Freud & Bacon, who I am ashamed to say I knew absolutely nothing about until this book.
It was such fun to see the City all dressed up for The holidays!

DrSabrinaMoldenReads Awww…going to the Met is on my bucket list 4mo
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shaynarae
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Panpan

I suppose if you‘d like a cursory insight into the lives of 8 male painters of the modern era and how their charged relationships with their fellow art peers of the time shaped them, this may be of interest to you. But I didn‘t care for it. It felt very flat, lacking a compelling thesis, and the organization didn‘t have a flow. It read like 4 separate essays, even though there was a lot there to dig into on a deeper level but Smee didn‘t go there.

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writerlibrarian

I definitely need to find this. 📚😏

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Melkyl
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College football rivalry week is the best. I obviously could not do any reading during this game 😳

suvata Nor I. Sadly, I'm a Michigan fan. 7y
BeththeBookDragon Interestingly enough, as a Penn State fan, this game was a must-watch for me too! 7y
Melkyl @suvata At least that was a fabulous game. I was shocked that this was the first overtime in such a storied rivalry. 7y
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Melkyl @bethfriedman906 Penn State got the job done. 7y
NatalieR Go Buckeyes! 👏 7y
suvata It definitely was an exciting game. 7y
Melkyl @NatalieR Ya👏👏😊 7y
Zelma @suvata I'm with you, phenomenal game and no one can complain with how it came down to the wire, but I was a bit verklempt at the end. 😔 7y
ValerieAndBooks Michigan fan here 😬. We lived in Ann Arbor for several years and my hubby got his MBA from Michigan. Now we live in PA amongst all the Penn State fans! 7y
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