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Stevens fashioned a new oratory free of meaning; he wrote a surreal, agnostic King James Bible culled from dilettante philosophy, dated chinoiserie, and picture-postcard Americana.
Little is known of his life, early or late, and his pictures (37 in the Wadsworth show, carefully culled from a total of perhaps 170) are the sole evidence of his preoccupations.
(The sections on McCain have been culled for a separate paperback, just issued, entitled John McCain: An American Odyssey .)
These people were culled, according to a spokeswoman, from approximately 1,500 who have contacted the committee.
While the first part of Renoir's assertion is preposterous (as anyone can see who peruses the dozen or so early works, culled from the Art Institute's own spectacular collection of over 90 pieces by Degas, that serve as an appetizer for the exhibition), the show makes a convincing case for the vitality of Degas' late work.