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Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.
If Rosenbaum wants to be an objective observer, fine, but he enters with too many preconceptions.
"I didn't," she tells the paper, "want anybody to have any preconceptions about who I am."
Stalin's face juxtaposed with Lenin's bier in a 1939 photomontage can be imagined as mourning only by an effort of will; he is sidelit, vampiric, sinister--but then Stalin rarely fails to look sinister in photographs, and this is not merely a matter of the viewer's preconceptions.
It's an interesting assertion, but one that should be supported by more than the reader's own sexist preconceptions.