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Art Without Chest

Kunitz, Stanley J. | June 11, 1930 issue

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The article discusses books and authors. Elsewhere, in the epilogue to his book "Poems" on French poet Charles Baudelaire and the symbolists, writer Peter Quennell remarks on a contemporary preference for those forms of art anticipated by writer Jules Laforgue in his phrase, "l"Art sans poitrine," as if the artist belonged to a race already conscious of exile and, retreating steadily before the new barbarians, demanded a goddess not too ponderous to embarrass him in the years of his flight and banishment.

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LITERATURE; AUTHORS; LAFORGUE, Jules; ARTS; LITTERATEURS; POETS, French
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