![]() ![]() ![]() And yet throughout her life Stein hewed to the political right, even signing up to be a propagandist for an authoritarian, Nazi-dominated political regime. ![]() Toklas belongs more to the liberal world of 2012 than to 1912. Her open, unapologetic, same-sex partnership with Alice B. Her playful and innovative writing seems to anticipate much of postmodern thought. Her patronage of modernism’s giants-Cézanne, Picasso, and Matisse-made her a radical in her day. A Jewish-American experimental writer, friend of Picasso and muse to Hemingway, Gertrude Stein seems to embody high modernism in its most creative and progressive form. Gertrude Stein, a Vichy supporter? For most people, including those filling the rooms of several recent major museum exhibits on Stein, this news might come as a surprise. ![]()
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