Example sentences for: sutton

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  • Both Sutton's and Pollak's Bettelheim allegories--the renegade from the narrow Freudian path and the total fraud--have obvious iconic appeal for our post-psychoanalytic era.

  • Pictures such as A Woman Nursing an Infant With a Child (circa 1658-60) are, in Sutton's view, compendiums of family values.

  • Sutton quotes liberally from the "flood" of domestic conduct books of the period, including some rhymed couplets from the wildly popular manual of Jacob Cats, such as (in my translation): "A man obeys the law of the land; a woman obeys the will of her man."

  • Pollak seizes on the same central fictions that Sutton does, and itemizes every other inaccuracy, or hint of one, that he is able to find--and he certainly looks hard.

  • "Most of his art expresses a clear moral point of view," writes Peter Sutton, director of the Wadsworth Atheneum and the world's leading authority on de Hooch, "above all of the values of patriarchal Dutch society and their celebration of domestic virtue."


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