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Ivory, Apes and Peacocks, Classics To Go

Contents: Essays about JOSEPH CONRAD, WALT WHITMAN, JULES LAFORGUE, DOSTOÏEVSKY AND TOLSTOY, SCHOENBERG, WEDEKIND, MOUSSORGSKY, CÉZANNE, VERMEER, MATISSE, VAN GOGH, GAUGUIN, ITALIAN FUTURISTS, VARIOUS LATTER-DAY POETS, PAINTERS, COMPOSERS AND DRAMATISTS

James Huneker

James Gibbons Huneker (January 31, 1857 – February 9, 1921) was an American art, book, music, and theater critic. A colorful individual and an ambitious writer, he was "an American with a great mission," in the words of his friend, the critic Benjamin De Casseres, and that mission was to educate Americans about the best cultural achievements, native and European, of his time. (Wikipedia)