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When God Looked the Other Way
The Eye of the Poet
Kipling
Frank Lloyd Wright
Shaggy Muses
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Notes and Methods
Scottish Mandarin
Thistle and Bamboo
More than Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment
Alberto Giacometti—Time Passes Too Soon
An Exile on Planet Earth
Nasser
Dear Queer Self
Mahatma Gandhi
René Magritte
Law Without Values
Piip, Meierovics & Voldemaras: The Baltic States
Big Bosses
Pentecostal Preacher Woman
Professor Baseball
Frida Kahlo
The Secret Lives of Teachers
The Architecture of Vision
J.-K. Huysmans
Once Upon a Life
Simone de Beauvoir
Charles Darwin
The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem
Alfred Russel Wallace
Richard Owen
The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold
Camus and Sartre
A Sinister Assassin
Madumo, a Man Bewitched
King of Kings
Plato
Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist
Book M
War Diary
Coolie Woman
Theodore Roosevelt
William S. Burroughs
Edison
Margery Kempe
Harold Rosenberg
Serving the Reich
Jo
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The Mother
2: Artist among the Artists
It was not becoming for a girl of the better classes to take up art as a career. It would have been tolerated that she did water colours or painted fans and screens, but not paintings on canvas! This was not included in the catalogue of the conventions of the higher bourgeoisie.1
– Jean-Paul Crespelle
The Julian Academy
In , when she was fifteen, Mirra passed her final school examinations and joined an art studio, the Académie Julian, one of the many private art schools in Paris. She would attend its courses for four years. ‘The name of the institution to which the studio belonged is not mentioned in her [the Mother’s] recorded talks or in any available documents. However, it can be inferred with reasonable certainty from several facts.’ 2 This important, self-chosen step in her life, had no doubt repercussions in the family. Her father may not have cared much, but her mother surely did; for Mathild
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