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Anne Sinclair

Autor(a) de My Grandfather's Gallery

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Obras de Anne Sinclair

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Schwartz, Anne-Élise (birth name)
Outros nomes
Sinclair, Anne-Elise (Nom d'état civil officiel, 1949)
Schwartz, Anne-Elise (Nom de naissance)
Data de nascimento
1948-07-15
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
France
País (para mapa)
France
Local de nascimento
New York, USA
Locais de residência
Washington, DC, USA
Paris, France
Educação
Paris Institute of Political Studies
University of Paris
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
Ocupação
journalist
television presenter
biographer
radio presenter
Relacionamentos
Strauss-Kahn, Dominique (former husband)
Premiações
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur (2015)
Pequena biografia
Anne Sinclair, née Anne-Élise Schwartz, was born in New York City, the daughter of Joseph-Robert Schwartz and Micheline Rosenberg, French Jews who later changed their name to Sinclair. Her maternal grandfather Paul Rosenberg, one of the great art dealers of the first half of the 20th century, had fled with his family from the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. A few years after her birth, the family returned to France. Anne attended the Cours Hattemer, and the prestigious Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and studied law at the University of Paris. She became a radio host with Europe 1, and in 1984 began hosting 7/7, a weekly Sunday evening news and political show on the television network TF1. She became one of the country's best known journalists over the course of the show's 13-year run. For this work, she ;won three Sept d'Or, the French equivalent of the U.S. Emmy Awards. In 1997, she left the show to avoid conflict of interest when her then-husband, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, became French finance minister. In 2003, she launched a cultural program called Libre Cours (Free Rein) on France Inter, the French public radio station. She also wrote bestselling books including Caméra Subjective (2003) and Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'eux (1997), and began writing an international blog. In 2012, she published her first book about her grandfather, 21 rue de La Boétie (the site of his gallery). In 1997, Anne Sinclair filed suit in U.S. District Court for the recovery of the Matisse painting "Odalisque," the first lawsuit against an American museum over ownership of art looted by the Nazis during World War II.

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I found this book strangely unsatisfactory. Is it a biography? Or is it about being an art dealer? At the beginning I wondered if it was a history of the way that the Jews in France were treated during World War II. The book jacket says that this is an 'International Bestseller' - that surprises me.

The narration jumped around - maybe a reflection of the author's journalistic experience.

Considering the title purports to be about her grandfather's (Paul Rosenberg's) gallery in Paris, illustrations of the pictures he worked with are restricted to distance shots or coincidental to something else in the chosen photo. Since Paul Rosenberg gave away many pictures to public institutions, surely they would have given permission for the author to reproduce one or two for the book so that we got a better idea of what he was dealing with or why he thought that this artist or that picture was so great and worth selling.

She spends a whole chapter on the relationship between Picasso and her grandfather, but it was actually his relationship with Henri Matisse and Georges Braque which seemed a lot more interesting and which could have been explored further.

So many of the impressionist painters are mentioned in passing, many several times. Quite strikingly (and because he is one of my favourite painters) Seurat is only mentioned once. Did Rosenberg not like him and his style?

There is no index and so it is difficult to go back and find what you are looking for or to re-read except by flicking through. For example I wanted to find the first mention of NMR (National Museums Recovery) but it eluded me - was it defined at all?

I have no doubt after reading this book that Paul Rosenberg was an important figure in the art world. This memoir doesn't do him justice and really only touches the surface of the life of this man.
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louis69 | 1 outra resenha | Jul 15, 2015 |
I liked it- hence the 4 stars. Did i love it? I might be one of the few who can't say i did. And i think it's because i initially felt like i was tripping over my own feet when the book started...it felt stilted- and that might be the translation? I just didn't think it easily flowed...

HOWEVER! That said, i must add that the subject matter was intriguing to me since i'd JUST watched a documentary on PBS ( or maybe the History Channel ) in which Paul Rosenberg and his art collection was part of the topic.
Hitler and his miserable band of monsters did their best to destroy an entire culture and its population and luckily , P.R. was able to escape , but just what did happen to the thousands of art works he owned?
This book was written by Rosenbergs granddaughter- a star in her own right, about her research into her family and French history of the era.
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linda.marsheells | 1 outra resenha | Oct 16, 2014 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
7
Membros
140
Popularidade
#146,473
Avaliação
3.2
Resenhas
2
ISBNs
28
Idiomas
5
Favorito
1

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