Volume 47, Number 14 · September 21, 2000
The Non-Conformist
By Tim Parks
Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics Under Fascism
by Emily Braun
Cambridge University Press, 316 pp., $65.00
The sins and excesses of the artist confirm his genius rather than the opposite. We do not abandon Byron because he abandoned his daughter, not to mention the other women. Our admiration for Caravaggio's stormy intensity is not marred by the reflection that his temper was such that he once killed a man over a game of tennis. Nor do we shy away from Picasso because he obliged a wife to share his house with a mistress. Poets and painters are demigods perhaps.
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