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Bonnard's "Butterflies".

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| December 01, 2002 | Panero, James | COPYRIGHT 2002 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A glamorization of modern art as revolutionary runs the risks, first, of neglecting what modern art may share with the past and, second, of promoting the myth of alienation from the past as an explanation of modernist fragmentation and destabilized order.

--John Elderfield, "Seeing Bonnard," 1998

When Julius Meier-Graefe reviewed Pierre Bonnard's 1933 installation at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, he remarked, "I should never have guessed that this singer of radiant hymns, this idyllic painter and sole transmitter of the lyricism of Renoir, could produce quite this type of work." He concluded:

 
   One could wish that some ambitious friend of the ...
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