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Title: Paris as Centre of the Universe
Review: They are all in here - Picasso, Modigliani, Rousseau, Gertrude Stein, Duchamp, Man Ray with a sprinkling of Hemingway. The book is a series of short vignettes on the daily life in Montmartre and Montparnasse with the drugs, the poverty the sex...Sometimes I feel the author is too dismissive of the emotional toll on the lives of the women who were used/abused/discarded with regularity by these artists and some make-believe artists. And the vignettes become repetitive, but entertaining nonetheless.What is intriguing is that Paris was the centre for art, culture and experimentation from 1900 thru the 1930's, but was gradually replaced by New York (the occupation during the war accomplished the final transfer).
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