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	<title>Romaine Brooks</title>
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	<description>The Epitome of Elegance</description>
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		<title>Romaine&#8217;s studio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think that in looking at Brooks&#8217; studio it has become clear that she was a woman of many parts. It is an endless horizon of her complexity and sensing how she has entered the horizon of modernism during a period when non-objective art dominated the scene and abstraction was coming into its own]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=173</link>
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		<title>Femme du Monde Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a term Romaine Brooks used to describe several women in her circle of friends. Women of the world. It&#8217;s a term to ponder. Most of my friends are women of the world. They travel widely, have had exciting and full lives. Some with family and some with a family of extended friends and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=166</link>
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		<title>Sylvia Plath poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently got a post on Romaine&#8217;s &#8220;The Crossing&#8221; interesting association with a Plath poem. A little more morbid in implication than the painting itself which is really about what some have called &#8220;lesbian space&#8221; and implied, including myself  is an orgasmic transport in symbolist form. Actually Ida Rubinstein was the model and she was Romaine&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=164</link>
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		<title>Murphy&#8217;s Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well just as you are getting to the end there is always something. Nonetheless, it is only a matter of time. Unfortunately, my polishing editor has a family emergency so we will be delayed for a couple of weeks before this gets on disk and a hard copy printed out for the agent to take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=161</link>
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		<title>The final chapter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The end is finally here. It&#8217;s been a long time coming. Like most biographers when I began my research I had a somewhat different picture in mind of Romaine Brooks as a person and an artist. What I have learned about life between the wars has opened my eyes to unexpected insights that have allowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=150</link>
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		<title>Romaine&#8217;s Circle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Talk about social media! Romaine&#8217;s cast of characters is extensive.  Her biographer presented her as a hermit but this is far from true. It appears that anyone who was anyone to be cultivated was on her agenda when she arrived in Paris in 1905.  There she began to live the life of the rich, cultured and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=136</link>
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		<title>Romaine&#8217;s Musical Chromatics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have never seen a Romaine Brooks painting except in reproduction I can only say you have never seen a Brooks at all. I know this may sound extreme but until you understand what her &#8220;severe&#8221; aesthetic aspired to&#8211;the condition of music&#8211;you are simply missing her point. In trying to frame [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=108</link>
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		<title>The Home Stretch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 9 has finally begun to shape up.  As I come to the end of this research I find myself thinking of Robert Louis Stevenson&#8217;s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Romaine Brooks appears to me to be a perfect female version with her extreme fluxuations of emotion and her ability to sever even her closest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=103</link>
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		<title>Almost there</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All or Nothing A critical Study of Romaine Brooks moves along. I am 3/4  finished with  chapter 9. Brooks&#8217;s slow deterioration and withdrawal from the world culminates in the late 1960s. By 1967 she is in poor health, dealing with losing her eye sight and insanely jealous of Barney&#8217;s lover Janine Lahovary who she considered [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Romaine update</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chapter nine is coming along, albeit slowly. While everyone else was celebrating the end of the war, Romaine and Natalie were keeping a low profile due to their initial support for Mussolini. Ezra Pound whose first broadcasts were supported by Natalie, she paid for his first radio was being taken into custody as a traitor. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.romainebrooks.com/?p=92</link>
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