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Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau and His World.(Brief article)(Book review)
In 1944, Cyril Connolly, having just passed his fortieth birthday and in a melancholy mood, published "The Unquiet Grave," a gloriously strange book of fragments, quotations, epigrams, impressions, and wartime journal entries--a kind of aesthetic autobiography--under the pseudonym Palinurus. Perl, the art critic for the New Republic, has written a similarly allusive, fragmentary, and personal book, with his favorite painter, the playful eighteenth-century master Antoine Watteau, at its center. As a journalist, ...
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