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Arte, Cultura

The Rococo Genius of Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The New Yorker (eng)

da Redazione Downtobaker “Fragonard: Drawing Triumphant,” at the Met, feels strangely timely. The rococo genius Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) would fit snugly into our present art world. You might even call the French artist the Jeff Koons of his day: possessed of a virtuosity so extreme that it becomes its own subject, seducing every class of viewer, while mirroring the self-regard of the wealthy and privileged. … Continua a leggere The Rococo Genius of Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The New Yorker (eng)

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Arte, Cultura, Letteratura

How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz

In 1886, Antoinette Faure, the daughter of the future French President Félix Faure, asked her childhood friend Marcel Proust to fill out a questionnaire in a book titled “Confessions. An Album to Record Thoughts, Feelings, & c.” A fashionable parlor game originating among the Victorian literate classes, the “confession album,” as it was known, presented a formulaic set of queries on each page—“What is your … Continua a leggere How the Proust Questionnaire Went from Literary Curio to Prestige Personality Quiz

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