{"id":26894,"date":"2020-10-07T13:37:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26894"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:38:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:38:11","slug":"book-report-modigliani-by-jacques-lipchitz-and-alfred-werner-1971","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/07\/book-report-modigliani-by-jacques-lipchitz-and-alfred-werner-1971\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Modigliani<\/i> by Jacques Lipchitz and Alfred Werner (1971)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/modigliani.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">Have you heard the name Modigliani?  I had not.  He lived a brief consumptive life around the turn of the century in France, and his art work is somewhere between the Impressionism or whatever Gauguin did and Picasso; the images are representative but distorted in proportion and brutal in execution.  He was only starting to get some recognition when he passed away from tuberculosis, so he&#8217;s really only known amongst art people, and perhaps fewer of them as we go along.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s probably fitting that if you talk about art that everyone kind of knows and artists who a lot of people have heard of, the names really taper off in the twentieth century.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps a twenty-first century reboot of the Teenage <em>[sic]<\/em> Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Next Generation with turtles named Matisse, O&#8217;Keeffe, and, uh, some other lesser know artists would re-inject them into the zeitgeist.  Or not.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the name Modigliani? I had not. He lived a brief consumptive life around the turn of the century in France, and his art work is somewhere between the Impressionism or whatever Gauguin did and Picasso; the images are representative but distorted in proportion and brutal in execution. He was only starting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26895,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26894\/revisions\/26895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}