5/26/2023 0 Comments French Seduction by Laura Hault![]() ![]() Passionate, critical and discursive, this account feels very French. ![]() ![]() She believes that the French mistreated even Picasso, just as they do so many (non-French) "Others," and that they seem to have abandoned once vibrant art, literature and creativity. 11.99 Publisher Description The hidden truth about the French way of life: it's all about seductionits rules, its pleasures, its secrets France is a seductive country, seductive in its elegance, its beauty, its sensual pleasures, and its joie de vivre. Drawing on her deep knowledge and love of French art, she includes reproductions of some of her favorite paintings and sculptures through the centuries. She considers the widespread French collaboration with the Germans during WWII-and finds echoes in how the French have treated immigrant Algerians and now the substantial ghettoized Muslim minority, as well as the country's persistent anti-Semitism. from Latvia, and toward her seductive adopted country. In this extended meditation, she gracefully weaves together her eclectic feelings of love and fury toward her father, a Jew who immigrated to the U.S. ) left New York for Paris with her husband, a painter, in 2000. Spurred, in part, by her father's unrealized dreams, art historian Lipton ( Alias Olympia: A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model and Her Own Desire ![]()
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