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		<description><![CDATA[La révolution Picasso Mais qu’a donc peint Picasso ?[1] Au Grand Palais, au Louvre et à Orsay, trois expositions[2] et près de trois cents tableaux évoquent les rapports de Picasso à l’histoire de l’art et aux maîtres. Un évènement exceptionnel pour &#8230; <a href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/mais-qua-donc-peint-picasso/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4771095&amp;post=61&amp;subd=edwardashleylamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="surtit7" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:11pt;">La révolution Picasso</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#605551;font-family:Arial;">Mais qu’a donc peint Picasso ?<a name="_ednref1" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn1"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#605551;font-family:Arial;">[1]</span></strong></span></span></span></a></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="color:#605551;font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">Au Grand Palais, au Louvre et à Orsay, trois expositions</span><a name="_ednref2" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn2"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#605551;font-family:Arial;">[2]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> et près de trois cents tableaux évoquent les rapports de Picasso à l’histoire de l’art et aux maîtres. Un évènement exceptionnel pour un nouveau retour sur celui qui fut sans doute le peintre majeur du XXe siècle.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#333333;font-family:Arial;">C&#8217;est un tableau impur, une sorte de puzzle construit à partir d&#8217;une infinité d&#8217;influences que subit le jeune artiste et qui lui permet, une bonne fois pour toutes, en les accumulant, en les faisant se contrer les unes les autres, de s&#8217;en débarrasser &#8211; un exorcisme, en somme.<em><span style="font-family:Arial;"> « Un tableau me vient de loin, qui sait de combien loin »</span></em>, dira <strong>Picasso</strong> à <strong>Christian Zervos</strong> en 1935. <em><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;">Les Demoiselles d&#8217;Avignon</span></strong></em>, elles, viennent de très, très loin ; et toutes les explications et les suppositions des historiens d&#8217;art se heurteront à ce constat que fait l&#8217;artiste:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><em><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Batang;"><span> </span></span></em><em><span style="color:#333333;font-style:normal;font-family:Batang;">« </span></em><em><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Batang;">Comment peut-on pénétrer dans mes rêves, dans mes instincts, dans mes désirs, dans mes pensées qui ont mis si longtemps à s&#8217;élaborer et à se produire au jour, surtout pour y saisir ce que j&#8217;ai mis, peut-être, malgré ma volonté ?</span></em><em><span style="color:#333333;font-style:normal;font-family:Batang;"> »</span></em></span><a name="_ednref3" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn3"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="color:#333333;font-family:Batang;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#333333;font-family:Batang;">[3]</span></strong></span></span></span></strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Batang;">Picasso</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Mais il y a, aussi, ce &#8220;nez tordu&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref4" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn4"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> si cher à <strong>Picasso</strong>… ; </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;text-align:justify;margin:5.25pt 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« Un œil par-ci, un pied par-là, un nez de travers… &#8220;Le nez de travers, dira-t-il lui-même à propos des Demoiselles d’Avignon, je l’ai fait exprès. J’ai fait de façon que les gens soient obligés de voir un nez.&#8221; Les Demoiselles, peintes en 1907, qu’il avait appelées, lui, <strong>le bordel d’Avignon</strong> et même <strong>le bordel philosophique</strong>, c’est une rupture, la véritable naissance de l’art moderne. »<a name="_ednref5" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn5"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a> &#8211; <strong>Maurice Ulrich</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;">Les Demoiselles d&#8217;Avignon, Pablo Picasso, 1907</span></strong><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond;">Oil on canvas, 243.9 × 233.7 cm, 96 × 92 in, <span> </span>Museum of Modern Art, New York City </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;">« An eye here and a foot there, a crooked nose…&#8221;The crooked nose was put in on purpose…” he said concerning the <em>Demoiselles d’Avignon</em> (the young ladies of Avignon). “I did it deliberately so that people were forced to see a nose.”<strong><span style="color:#000000;"> </span></strong><em><span>Les Demoiselles</span></em><span>, painted in 1907, which he himself had called “<strong>the Avignon brothel</strong>” and even “<strong>the philosophical brothel</strong>” marks a real break, namely the true emergence of modern art.</span> » – <strong>Isabelle M.<a name="_ednref6" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn6"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[6]</span></span></strong></span></span></span></a> </strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Garamond;"><span> </span></span><strong></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Batang;">« <em>In the Demoiselles d’Avignon I painted a profile nose into a frontal view of a face. I had to depict it sideways so that I could give it a name, so that I could call it ‘nose’. And so they started talking about Negro art. Have you ever seen a single African sculpture &#8212; just one &#8212; where a face mask has a profile nose in it?</em> »</span><span style="font-family:Batang;"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:Batang;">Picasso</span></strong><span style="font-family:Batang;"> wrote.<a name="_ednref7" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn7"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Batang;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">De même que les <em>demoiselles </em>de Picasso n&#8217;ont rien à voir avec Avignon…</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La scène du tableau se passe à <strong>Barcelone</strong>, dans une maison de prostituées du <strong><em>Carrer d’Avinyó<a name="_ednref8" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn8"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Jester;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[8]</span></span></strong></span></span></span></a></em></strong>, où le peintre passait régulièrement  pour aller acheter du matériel de peinture. Le titre n’en fut attribué que plusieurs années plus tard par un des amis de l’artiste.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">&#8220;The painting received its title not from Picasso but from his friend <strong>Andre Salmon</strong> in 1916, and it is either, depending on interpretation, euphemistic or ironic for it refers to a brothel or brothels on the <strong><em>Carrer d’Avinyo</em></strong> in <strong>Barcelona</strong>, of which <strong>Picasso</strong> evidently had personal experience.&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref9" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn9"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Jester;"><span style="color:#0011ff;font-family:Times New Roman;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span><strong><span style="font-size:19.5pt;font-family:Georgia;"> </span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> </span>La provocation provient de l&#8217;univers du<strong> bordel</strong> qui montre une familiarité obscène et qui prouve le goût de la dérision, la volonté de peindre les exclus, de transcrire les modes de vie.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La<strong> provocation</strong> est double : le contenu et la forme</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0;" align="center"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">espace fermé = bordel</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Le <strong>regard</strong> nous interpelle mais fait partie du tableau, on est appelé à comprendre la situation de ses femmes qui peut-être se voilent, se masquent par pudeur, les <strong>masques</strong> évoquant aussi la maladie, le vice les couleurs du bleu, du rose, du passé au futur : cf. les célèbres périodes de Picasso.</span><a name="_ednref10" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn10"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Jester;"><span style="color:#0011ff;font-family:Times New Roman;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;text-align:justify;margin:5.25pt 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« Même ses amis les plus proches n’y comprennent plus rien. Georges <strong>Braque</strong> lui dit : &#8220;C’est comme si tu voulais nous faire manger de l’étoupe et boire du pétrole.&#8221; Guillaume Apollinaire, un intime, ne sait plus quoi dire et Matisse fulmine. Picasso est un monstre et s’en moque : &#8221;Moi, ça m’est égal, je suis comme la girafe qui ne sait pas qu’elle est monstrueuse. Cette appréciation vient de l’autre côté de la barricade.&#8221; »<a name="_ednref11" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn11"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></a> <strong>Maurice Ulrich</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">« The enormously disturbing newness of <em>Les Demoiselles</em> is confirmed by the reaction, not of the public or the critics, but of Picasso’s avant- garde artist friends when they first saw it in his studio. Both Matisse and Braque were at first repelled by it. Picasso, <strong>Braque</strong> said, had been ‘drinking turpentine and spitting fire’ »<a name="_ednref12" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn12"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« Even his closest friends were lost. Georges <strong>Braque</strong> said to him : “It’s as if you wanted us to eat tow and drink paraffin oil.” Guillaume Apollinaire, a close friend, was tongue-tied, Matisse fulminated. Picasso was a monster and did not care : “I don’t care a bit, I am like the giraffe who does not know it is a monster. This judgment comes from the other side of the fence.” </span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">» <strong>Isabelle M.</strong></span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« Georges Braque lui dit : &#8221;C’est comme si tu voulais nous faire manger de l’étoupe et boire du pétrole.&#8221; » &#8211; <strong>Maurice Ulrich</strong></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">L&#8217;on sait qu&#8217;<strong>Ulrich</strong> n&#8217;est pas avare des phrases elliptiques, voire hermétiques ; ce qui ne rend pas la tâche facile pour le traducteur… Ce qui est le cas, ici, pour cette citation absconse attribuée<span>  </span>à <strong>Braque</strong> et que le journaliste reproduit dans sa forme souvent tronquée de sa conclusion : &#8220;…<span style="text-decoration:underline;">pour cracher du feu</span>&#8220;. La phrase traitée ainsi est privée de tout sens, à ce qu&#8217;il me semble…; le traduire littéralement ne peut que laisser le lecteur anglophone perplexe. Ce qui explique, peut-être, le choix de <span> </span><strong>Robert Hughes</strong>,<em> </em><span>lequel va à l&#8217;essentiel dans la petite phrase de </span><strong>Braque</strong><span> ; à savoir, justement, sa conclusion tronquée : </span></span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">&#8220;</span></span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">…</span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;font-family:Jester;">pour cracher du feu</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;color:#000000;font-family:Jester;">&#8220;, </span></span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">p<span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/les-paquets-de-ouate-thermogene-avec-son-diable-cracheur-de-feu-dessine-par-cappiello4.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-64" title="les-paquets-de-ouate-thermogene-avec-son-diable-cracheur-de-feu-dessine-par-cappiello4" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/les-paquets-de-ouate-thermogene-avec-son-diable-cracheur-de-feu-dessine-par-cappiello4.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></a></span>our la traduire plus simplement :</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0 0 14.5pt;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">« </span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Garamond;">Picasso, <strong>Braque</strong> said, had been &#8220;drinking turpentine and spitting fire&#8221;</span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Garamond;"> </span><span style="font-family:&quot;">».<a name="_ednref13" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn13"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:&quot;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:6pt 0 0 14.5pt;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Garamond;"> </span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&quot;">Ce choix, bien qu&#8217;arbitraire, permet au lecteur de saisir, au moins, le coté &#8220;<strong>amuseur public</strong>&#8221; de Picasso, ce &#8220;cracheur de feu&#8221;, ce funambule, cet illusionniste qui nous émerveille…; même si l&#8217;on perd un peu la notion de sa voracité… (<strong>Braque</strong> sous-entendait-il, de surcroît, que l&#8217;obsession de <strong>Picasso</strong> pour la peinture faisait qu&#8217;il ne vivait que pour elle, qu&#8217;il ne mangeait, ni ne buvait qu&#8217;elle…;</span><span style="color:#000000;font-family:&quot;"> </span><span style="font-family:&quot;">sorte de &#8220;cannibalisme pictural sans précédent est à l’œuvre dans la démarche de Picasso qui érige en système, la peinture de la peinture&#8221;<a name="_ednref14" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn14"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[14]</span></span></span></span></span></a>. …?)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Cracheur de feu</span></strong></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"> &#8211; (affiche publicitaire,</span><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';">dessin de <strong>Cappiello</strong>)</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;">&#8220;<em>Ce furent de grands peintres que Giotto, Le Titien, Rembrandt et Goya : <span>je suis seulement un <strong>amuseur public</strong> qui a compris son temps et a épuisé le mieux qu’il a pu l’imbécillité, la vanité, la cupidité de ses contemporains. C’est une amère confession que la mienne, plus douloureuse qu’elle ne semble. </span></em></span><em><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;">Mais elle a le mérite d’être sincère.&#8221; </span></em><a name="_ednref15" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn15"><sup><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"><span><sup><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[15]</span></span></sup></span></span></sup></a><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"> </span><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"><span lang="EN-GB"><strong>(Pablo Picasso)</strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-family:Batang;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span> </span></span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">« Georges Braque said to him : “It’s as if you wanted us to eat tow and drink paraffin oil.” » – <strong>Isabelle M.<a name="_ednref16" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn16"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[16]</span></span></strong></span></span></span></a></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#000000;font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Georges <strong>Braque</strong>, examinant l&#8217;œuvre,  dira à l&#8217;adresse de Picasso:&#8221; C&#8217;est comme si tu voulais me faire manger de l&#8217;étoupe et boire du pétrole <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pour cracher du feu</span>&#8220;</span><a name="_ednref17" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn17"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#000000;font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">[17]</span></span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:6pt 0 0;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8220;As concerns the Braque quotation , I am quite impressed by the reference<br />
you added in the note. I don&#8217;t think the quotation you found there<br />
translates the comment reported by Maurice Ulrich though,  or does it?&#8221; &#8211; <strong>Isabelle M.<a name="som"></a></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 18pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Mais, l&#8217;on s&#8217;accord à dire que ce seraient, d&#8217;abord, d&#8217;autres &#8220;demoiselles&#8221; qui auraient inspiré <strong><span> </span>Picasso</strong> à peindre &#8220;Les Demoiselles d&#8217;Avignon&#8221;…</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong>« </strong></span></span><em><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"><strong>Il faudrait pouvoir montrer les tableaux qui sont <span style="text-decoration:underline;">sous</span> le tableau</strong></span></em><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">»</span></span></strong><span style="font-size:14pt;"><br />
</span><span class="b12txtc40"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;">[ </span></span><span class="b12txtc30"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;">Pablo Picasso</span></strong></span><span class="b12txtc40"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;"> ]</span></span><span style="font-size:14pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Pourtant, des &#8220;dessous&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref18" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn18"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[18]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;">, ces &#8220;demoiselles&#8221; (notamment chez <strong>Ingres</strong>) en sont singulièrement dépourvues, nous dirait-on… à première vue…!</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:Batang;">« <em><strong>Un tableau me vient de loin, qui sait de combien loin.</strong></em> » <span class="b12txtc40">[</span><span class="b12txtc30"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span><span class="b12txtc40">]</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;margin:5.25pt 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">«…&#8221;Bain turc&#8221; d’<strong>Ingres</strong> qui lui-même, dans l’excès de la chair<span style="color:#ff0000;"> </span>et l’ennui des femmes enfermées, mettait en cause le regard colonial sur les gynécées.» &#8211; <strong>Maurice Ulrich</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« <em>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</em>, (to go back to them for a short while,) mark a rupture from <strong>Ingres</strong>’ <em>Bain Turc</em> (Turkish bath), where</span><span style="font-size:9pt;color:#000000;line-height:140%;font-family:Georgia;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">Ingres, himself, in his representation of a group of<span>  </span>nude concubines lounging voluptuously in the opulence and the boredom of their gilded cage, raises the question of our colonial perception of those oriental <strong><em>harems</em></strong>? » &#8211; <strong>Edward Lamb</strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:140%;margin:5.25pt 0;"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:140%;font-family:Arial;">« <em>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</em>,<span>  </span>(to go back to them for a short while,) mark a rupture from <strong>Ingres’</strong> <em>Bain Turc</em> (Turkish bath), where Ingres himself questioned the colonial look on those golden women’s prisons for women through the excess of the flesh and the boredom of their inmates.» – <strong>Isabelle M.<a name="_ednref19" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn19"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[19]</span></span></strong></span></span></span></a></strong></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Que signifie-ton, ici, par l&#8217;expression : &#8220;<em>excess of flesh </em>&#8221; ? :</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18pt;margin:0 0 0 36pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">-</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">         </span></span></span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Etalage excessive de chair &#8220;fraîche&#8221;… ? Ou abus de la &#8220;bonne chère&#8221;… ? Une sorte &#8220;d&#8217;overdose&#8221; des sens…; une sensualité débridée… ? Erotisme ou exotisme ? Pas pareille…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 36pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">-</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="font-family:&quot;">Ingres</span></strong><span style="font-family:&quot;"> n&#8217;est pas à la recherche du moindre détail intime de l&#8217;anatomie<a name="_ednref20" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn20"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[20]</span></span></span></span></span></a> de ces femmes; ici, le regard qu&#8217;il pose sur ces femmes est presque &#8220;romantique&#8221;, et pas un poil pubien qui ne dépasse (</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">ce n&#8217;est pas du <strong>Courbet</strong>…; encore qu&#8217;il ne faille pas réduire ce dernier à &#8220;l&#8217;Origine du Monde&#8221;…</span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:-18pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 36pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span><span style="font-size:small;">-</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">         </span></span></span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&quot;">De la chair ! De la chair, en veux-tu, en voilà… De la chair, partout… Et, pourtant, il ne s&#8217;agît <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pas</span> ici de &#8220;partouze&#8221;… Des femmes, bien en chair, certes, qui se prélassent autour d&#8217;un &#8220;<strong>bain turc</strong>&#8220;, rien de plus; ce n&#8217;est pas un &#8220;bordel&#8221;, au sens où l&#8217;on l&#8217;entend, mais, un <strong><em>harem</em></strong>… Quel est donc notre &#8220;regard colonial&#8221; sur cette &#8220;débauche&#8221; à l&#8217;</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">oriental</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">, s&#8217;interroge-t-on…?</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/petite-baigneuse-a-linterieur-dun-harem-ingres2.jpg"></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ingres-bain-turc.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-67" title="ingres-bain-turc" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/ingres-bain-turc.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><img class="size-full wp-image-65 aligncenter" title="petite-baigneuse-a-linterieur-dun-harem-ingres2" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/petite-baigneuse-a-linterieur-dun-harem-ingres2.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/petite-baigneuse-a-linterieur-dun-harem-ingres2.jpg"></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> Jean-Auguste-Dominique <strong>Ingres</strong>,<span>                 </span>Jean-Auguste-Dominique <strong>Ingres</strong>,<br />
<em> Le Bain turc, 1867,<span>                            </span><span>         </span>La Petite Baigneuse, Intérieur d&#8217;Harem</em>, 1828,<br />
 Huile sur toile, H. 1, 080 m ; L. 1,100 m<span>       </span>Huile sur toile, H. 0,350 M ; L. 0,270 m,<br />
 Paris, Musée du Louvre<span>                                </span>Paris, Musée du Louvre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Sacrés farceurs, ces deux là…<span>  </span>Qui l&#8217;eut cru que ces charmantes <em>demoiselles</em> ne faisaient que &#8220;tapisserie&#8221;…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Et, pourtant, l&#8217;on sent bien l&#8217;introspection personnelle et individuelle dans le <strong>regard</strong> que l&#8217;on dirait intériorisé de <span style="text-decoration:underline;">chacune</span> de ses femmes, l&#8217;on devine dans chacune d&#8217;entre elles sa part de mystérieux féminin, le secret de son exotisme propre… ; mais, comme le dit si bien <strong>Pierre-Olivier Douphis</strong> :</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">&#8220;Dans cette toile<strong>, Ingres</strong> joue sur la <strong>saturation</strong> : il n’est pas possible de convoiter toutes ces femmes, si bien que, puisqu’on ne peut les avoir toutes, on en a aucune. Le <strong>harem</strong>, qui fait tant rêver les hommes du XIXe siècle, leur fait voir tout ce qu’ils ne pourront jamais obtenir et jamais honorer. S’il s’offre à la vue, il est pourtant totalement inaccessible.&#8221;</span><span style="color:#dcc7b8;font-family:Arial;">.</span></span><a name="_ednref21" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn21"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[21]</span></span></span></span></span></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">Contrairement aux <strong>orientalistes</strong> qui représentent le <strong>harem</strong> comme un lieu plein de corps nus, les historiens turcs le décrivent plutôt comme une école de femmes. “Le plus important, explique l’historien <strong>Ilbay Ortayli</strong>, c’était de donner aux femmes une éducation de qualité et de s’assurer qu’elles pussent conclure un bon mariage [notamment avec des hauts fonctionnaires].”</span><a name="_ednref22" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn22"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[22]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> <strong></strong></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;">Le harem, fantasme des Occidentaux </span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-size:small;">&#8220;Peintres et écrivains européens ont donné du <strong>harem</strong> ottoman une image qui n’a pas grand-chose à voir avec la réalité. Loin d’avoir été une prison pour femmes lascives, affirment plusieurs auteurs turcs et arabes, il s’agissait plutôt d’une <strong>institution</strong> éducative&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref23" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn23"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[23]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;">.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Alors, pour essayer de &#8220;pénétrer&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref24" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn24"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[24]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> (</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">si j&#8217;ose dire…</span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">) ce double mystère, je me mets à contempler cette scène à satiété – et bien au delà ! Jusqu&#8217;au point de la mettre en &#8220;fond d&#8217;écran&#8221; sur mon ordinateur, ce qui étire d&#8217;avantage l&#8217;image, produisant un effet presque grotesque de toute cette voluptueuse &#8220;débauche&#8221; de chair féminine dont <strong>Ingres</strong> nous a &#8220;gavés&#8221;… pour finir par m&#8217;arrêter sur un détail… <strong>détail</strong> qui m&#8217;avait presque échappé, au milieu de cette surabondance de chair fraîche, …une sorte de répit, comme après l&#8217;abus de la &#8220;bonne chère&#8221;… </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Il était pourtant là, au premier plan, et en pleine lumière, comme un &#8220;tableau dans le tableau&#8221;, une <strong>nature morte</strong></span><a name="_ednref25" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn25"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[25]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> (</span></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">au beau milieu de toutes ces &#8220;demoiselles&#8221;, bien vivantes, elles</span><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:&quot;">) – dans un style, pour le coup, plus proche du &#8220;Postimpressionnisme&#8221; à la <strong>Cézanne</strong> &#8211; ce petit plateau, ce joli petit service au décor si </span><span style="font-family:&quot;">oriental</span><span style="font-family:&quot;">, justement… avec sa minuscule tasse, dans laquelle se trouve, sans doute, la quintessence du<span>  </span>café…turc, bien entendu…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Pour <strong>Picasso</strong>, ce clin d&#8217;œil, en guise de <strong>nature morte</strong></span><a name="_ednref26" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn26"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[26]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;">, se fera au même endroit, mais sous forme de la &#8220;représentation iconique&#8221; d&#8217;un bol de fruits : un melon, une grappe de raisins, une poire et une pomme… </span></span><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Eureka ! Ce serait donc ça, cette fameuse &#8220;pêche&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref27" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn27"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[27]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:small;"> que cache la foret…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">&#8220;<em>Jutting out at the center of the bottom of the painting is a bowl of fruit – a melon, grapes, pear and apple</em>.&#8221;</span><a name="_ednref28" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_edn28"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:14pt;color:#333333;font-family:&quot;">[28]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:16pt;color:#333333;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> <a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bain-turc-ingres-detail-lumineux.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-69" title="bain-turc-ingres-detail-lumineux" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/bain-turc-ingres-detail-lumineux.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></a><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-70" title="300px-chicks-from-avignon3" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/300px-chicks-from-avignon3.jpg?w=500" alt=""   /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">Ingres </span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">: Bain turc</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;"> (detail)<span>        </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;">Picasso</span></strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:&quot;"> : Les Demoiselles d&#8217;Avignon </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;"><span> </span>(detail) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Batang;">« <em>You know, it’s just like being a peddler. You want two breasts? Well, here you are &#8211; two breasts&#8230;. We must see to it that the man looking at the picture has at hand everything he needs to paint a nude. If you really give him everything he needs—and the best—he’ll put everything where it belongs, with his own eyes. Each person will make for himself the kind of nude he wants, with the nude that I will have made for him</em> ». <cite><span style="font-style:normal;font-family:Batang;">- </span></cite></span><cite><strong><span style="font-style:normal;font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.enotes.com/famous-quotes/author/pablo-picasso"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;">Pablo Picasso</span></a></span></strong></cite><cite></cite></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span class="attlabel1"><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB"><strong>Attribution:</strong></span></span><cite><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN-GB"> Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), Spanish artist. </span></cite><cite><span style="font-size:10pt;">Vogue (New York, Nov. 1, 1956).</span></cite></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><cite><span style="font-size:8pt;"><a href="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/6-picasso-nu-avec-chat1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-71" title="6-picasso-nu-avec-chat1" src="http://edwardashleylamb.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/6-picasso-nu-avec-chat1.jpg?w=500&#038;h=288" alt="" width="500" height="288" /></a></span></cite></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">Pablo Picasso</span></strong><span style="color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">, Nu couché jouant avec un chat</span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;font-family:&quot;">Mougins, 10, 11 mai 1964. Fondation Beyeler, Bâle © Succession Picasso, 2008</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="font-size:small;"><strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span style="font-family:Batang;">Citations</span></span></strong><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span lang="EN-GB"> :</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>Are we to paint what&#8217;s on the face, what&#8217;s inside the face, or what&#8217;s behind it?</em> &#8221; </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one&#8217;s bath like a lump of sugar</em>.&#8221; </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite &#8211; that particular peach is but a detail</em>.&#8221; </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- <span> </span>&#8220;<em>It takes a long time to become young</em>.&#8221; </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;"><span style="font-size:small;">- &#8220;<em>On devient jeune à soixante ans. Malheureusement, c&#8217;est trop tard.&#8221; </em><span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;"><span style="font-size:small;">[<strong>Pablo Picasso</strong>] </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>J&#8217;ai mis toute ma vie à savoir dessiner comme un enfant.&#8221; </em></span><strong><span style="font-family:Batang;">Pablo Picasso</span></strong><em></em></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>The people who make art their business are mostly impostors&#8221;</em>. <span> </span></span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.&#8221;</em> </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#222222;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>I </em></span><span class="body1"><em><span style="font-family:Batang;">don&#8217;t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents</span></em></span><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Batang;">.&#8221;</span></span><span style="font-family:Batang;"> </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas120306.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span><span class="bodybold1"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span class="body1"><span style="font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>Youth has no age</em>.&#8221;</span></span><span style="font-family:Batang;"> </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span><span class="bodybold1"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;margin:0;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span style="color:#000000;font-family:Batang;">- &#8220;<em>Quand je n&#8217;ai pas de bleu, je mets du rouge</em>.&#8221; </span><span class="bodybold1"><span style="font-family:Batang;"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/pablopicas138408.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;"><strong>Pablo Picasso</strong></span></a></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><a name="_edn1" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref1"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[1]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">La révolution Picasso, <strong>Mais qu’a donc peint Picasso ? &#8211; </strong><strong>Maurice Ulrich (</strong><span>Editorialiste et critique des arts graphiques)</span><strong>, <span><span> </span></span>L&#8217;Humanité</strong> du 6 octobre 2008. </span></span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">( </span><a href="http://www.humanite.fr/2008-10-06_Cultures_Mais-qu-a-donc-peint-Picasso"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#800080;font-family:Times New Roman;">http://www.humanite.fr/2008-10-06_Cultures_Mais-qu-a-donc-peint-Picasso</span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">).</span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></strong><a name="_edn2" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref2"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[2]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> &#8220;Picasso et les maîtres&#8221; , du 9 octobre 2008 au 2 février 2009 , <strong>Galeries nationales du Grand Palais</strong>, Paris. (www.rmn.fr) Picasso/&#8221;Delacroix : Femmes d’Alger&#8221; , du 9 octobre 2008 au 2 février 2009 , <strong>Musée du Louvre</strong>, Paris. (www.louvre.fr) &#8220;Picasso/Manet : Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe&#8221;, du 9 octobre 2008 au 2 février 2009,<strong> Musée d&#8217;Orsay</strong>, Paris. (</span><a href="http://www.musee-orsay.fr/"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#0011ff;font-family:Times New Roman;">www.musee-orsay.fr</span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">). </span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn3" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref3"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[3]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> Les dessous des “Demoiselles”, <strong>Olivier Cena<span>  </span>- </strong><strong>Télérama n° 3061.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><strong><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></strong><a name="_edn4" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref4"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[4]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> … « Le <strong>nez de travers</strong>, dira-t-il lui-même à propos des Demoiselles d’Avignon, je l’ai fait exprès. J’ai fait de façon que les <span style="text-decoration:underline;">gens soient obligés de voir un nez</span>. » <span lang="EN-GB">Pablo Picasso.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn5" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref5"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[5]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> La révolution Picasso, <strong>Mais qu’a donc peint Picasso ? &#8211; </strong><strong>Maurice Ulrich,<span> </span>L&#8217;Humanité</strong> du 6 octobre 2008.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn6" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref6"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[6]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">The Picasso Revolution</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">: What Ever Did Picasso Paint? </span>Translated<span>  </span>le 11 octobre 2008, par <strong>Isabelle Metral. </strong><span lang="EN-GB">(<a href="http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article1040.html"><span style="color:#800080;">http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article1040.html</span></a>) </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn7" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref7"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[7]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a href="http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#800080;font-family:Times New Roman;">http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/cubism/Pablo-Picasso.html</span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> </span></span></span></span><a name="_edn8" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref8"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[8]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> Le sujet aurait pu choquer : des prostituées d&#8217;une célèbre rue de <strong>Barcelone</strong>, la Carrer d&#8217;Aviny, c&#8217;est-à-dire «<strong>rue d&#8217;Avignon</strong>», d&#8217;où le nouveau titre succédant au « Bordel philosophique » initial. Mais là, c&#8217;est le traitement pictural, la manière même de l&#8217;artiste, son audacieuse «destruction» qui soulèvent des réactions passionnées. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">Nom initial : le bordel d’<strong>Avignon</strong>.</span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn9" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref9"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[9]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span> </span><strong><span lang="EN">A revolution in paint</span></strong><span lang="EN">: 100 years of Picasso’s Demoiselles</span><span lang="EN-GB"> : </span><strong><span lang="EN">John Molyneux (</span></strong><span lang="EN">Posted: 2 July 07)</span></span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;" lang="EN"> </span><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size:x-small;">copyright © <strong>International Socialism.</strong></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn10" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref10"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[10]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> <span style="font-family:Jester;">L&#8217;art militant au XIXe siècle,<span style="color:#666699;"> (http://pagesperso-orange.fr/c.brossard/petitbachelier2003/lartmilitant.htm)</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn11" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref11"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[11]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> La révolution Picasso, <strong>Mais qu’a donc peint Picasso ? &#8211; </strong><strong>Maurice Ulrich,<span> </span>L&#8217;Humanité</strong> du 6 octobre 2008.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn12" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref12"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[12]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Robert Hughes</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">,<em> The Shock of the New</em>, London, 1991, p.24.</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> </span></span></span></span><a name="_edn13" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref13"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[13]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> <strong><em>idem</em></strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn14" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref14"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[14]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> <strong><em>Anne Baldassari</em></strong><em>, Extrait de l’introduction au catalogue de l’exposition.</em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn15" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref15"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[15]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> (<strong>Pablo Picasso</strong>, lettre à Giovanni Papini, publiée en 1952.)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn16" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref16"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[16]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> <strong><span lang="EN-GB">The Picasso Revolution</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">: What Ever Did Picasso Paint? </span></span>Translated<span>  </span>le 11 octobre 2008, par <strong>Isabelle Metral.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn17" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref17"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[17]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> <span style="font-family:Jester;">L&#8217;art militant au XIXe siècle,<span style="color:#666699;"> (<a href="http://pagesperso-orange.fr/c.brossard/petitbachelier2003/lartmilitant.htm"><span style="color:#800080;">http://pagesperso-orange.fr/c.brossard/petitbachelier2003/lartmilitant.htm</span></a>)</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="color:#666699;font-family:Jester;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn18" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref18"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[18]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> Les dessous des “Demoiselles”, <strong>Olivier Cena<span>  </span>- </strong><strong>Télérama n° 3061.</strong></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn19" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref19"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[19]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span> <span lang="EN-GB">The Picasso Revolution :<strong> What Ever Did Picasso Paint ? – </strong>Translated samedi 11 octobre 2008, par<strong> </strong></span></span><strong><a href="http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/auteur135.html"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;">Isabelle Metral</span></a></strong><strong><span lang="EN-GB">, Humanité in English</span></strong><span lang="EN-GB">, (<a href="http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article1040.html?var_mode=calcul"><span style="color:#0011ff;">http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article1040.html?var_mode=calcul</span></a>).</span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn20" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref20"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[20]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> &#8220;<strong>Ingres</strong>, parfois, allongeait le col des <strong>odalisques</strong>. l&#8217;anatomiste doit protester, même s&#8217;il jouit du <strong>dessin</strong>. Chacun est dans sa fonction&#8230;&#8221;, Paul Valéry – <strong><span style="text-decoration:underline;">la poésie depuis Baudelaire</span></strong> , de Henri Lemaitre.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn21" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref21"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[21]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> <strong>Histoire de l&#8217;art</strong>, site de <strong>Pierre-Olivier Douphis</strong>, (</span><a href="http://www.geographis.ch/~podouphis/ingres.htm"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#800080;font-family:Times New Roman;">http://www.geographis.ch/~podouphis/ingres.htm</span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn22" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref22"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[22]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span><strong><span style="font-size:10pt;">Le harem, fantasme des Occidentaux</span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt;">,<strong> </strong>(<a href="http://www.bleublancturc.com/Turqueries/harem.htm"><span style="color:#800080;">http://www.bleublancturc.com/Turqueries/harem.htm</span></a>)</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn23" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref23"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[23]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"> &#8220;Aksiyon&#8221;, Istanbul [<strong>Courrier International</strong>, n°616 du 22 au 28 août 2002], <strong>Osman Iridag</strong><span>.<strong> </strong></span><span> </span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn24" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref24"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[24]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> Lors de son séjour au Maroc, <strong>Delacroix</strong> avait été autorisé à pénétrer <strong>le harem</strong> de l&#8217;ancien Rais du dey d&#8217;Alger</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;">.</span><a name="_edn25" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref25"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[25]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a href="http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/O0013662.html"><span style="font-size:x-small;color:#800080;font-family:Times New Roman;">http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/O0013662.html</span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn26" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref26"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[26]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> une nature morte (fruits) au premier plan /</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span><a name="_edn27" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref27"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[27]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang;">«</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang;">One does a <span style="text-decoration:underline;">whole painting</span> for one <strong>peach</strong> and people think just the opposite &#8212; that particular peach is but a detail.» </span><strong><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Batang;">Pablo Picasso</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a name="_edn28" href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/wp-admin/#_ednref28"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;"><span style="color:#0011ff;">[28]</span></span></span></span></span></a><span><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span><a href="http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/2007/06/revolution-in-paint-100-years-of.html"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong><span style="color:windowtext;">A Revolution in Paint</span></strong><span style="color:windowtext;"> &#8211; 100 Years of Picasso&#8217;s Demoiselles</span></span></span></a><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">, by John Molyneux (<span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/2007/06/revolution-in-paint-100-years-of.html"><span style="color:#800080;">http://johnmolyneux.blogspot.com/2007/06/revolution-in-paint-100-years-of.html</span></a> )</span></span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText" style="margin:0;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:x-small;font-family:Times New Roman;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:small;">Voir aussi : </span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">(<a href="http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:6KJPU962U0sJ:www.centrefrancais.lt/download.php/fileid/49+Braque,+%22C%27est+comme+si+tu+voulais+me+faire+manger+de+l%27%C3%A9toupe+et+boire+du+p%C3%A9trole...%22&amp;hl=fr&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=fr&amp;lr=lang_en|lang_fr"><span style="color:#800080;">http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:6KJPU962U0sJ:www.centrefrancais.lt/download.php/fileid/49+Braque,+%22C%27est+comme+si+tu+voulais+me+faire+manger+de+l%27%C3%A9toupe+et+boire+du+p%C3%A9trole&#8230;%22&amp;hl=fr&amp;ct=clnk&amp;cd=2&amp;gl=fr&amp;lr=lang_en|lang_fr</span></a>)<span>  </span>=<span>  </span>(<a href="http://www.centrefrancais.lt/download.php/fileid/49"><span style="color:#800080;">http://www.centrefrancais.lt/download.php/fileid/49</span></a>)</span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor&#8217;s Island 1969                                     &#8220;Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis ?…&#8221;                                                      The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock                                                                                                                                    T.S. Eliot, (1900-1949)   The arduous, overstated &#8230; <a href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/governors-island-1969/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4771095&amp;post=16&amp;subd=edwardashleylamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:right;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="right"><strong><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>                               </span><span>    </span></span></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:right;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB">&#8220;Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:right;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB">Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis ?…&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:right;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="right"><em><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span>                                                     </span>The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock</span></em><span style="font-size:9pt;" lang="EN"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:9pt;" lang="EN"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span>                                                           </span><span>    </span><span>                                                                    </span></span></span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN"><a title="Margaret Mitchell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;">T.S.</span></a> Eliot, (1900-1949)</span></em><em><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">The arduous, overstated virility of the ambience</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Cold, hard and acrid as brass</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Relentless, <span style="color:red;">constant</span> as the <span style="color:red;">surrounding</span> brackish waters</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Of the deep, dark Hudson&#8217;s eternal tides… </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Like a young man&#8217;s tearless, unavowed solitude</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">In the lone, Spartan celibacy of a hard bunk</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Enveloped in sterile, rugged, anonymous sheets </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">And the <em>vague</em> odour of industrial laundry</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">The routine <em>masquerade</em> of starched white uniforms </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Senseless ceremony in the brisk early morning air </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Forcing a rigid, meaningless salute </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Reciting the same empty phrases</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Supposed to howl &#8220;Yes, Sir !&#8221; in feigned obedience</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">To some insignificant, masochistic Sergeant</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">In execution of some purely capricious &#8220;order&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">The sole purpose of which is your humiliation</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Forming straight, disciplined monotonous lines</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Herded like cattle towards</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Soulless, saltpetre meals slopped into stainless steel vessels</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">In an atmosphere of utter boredom…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Paradoxically, across the Bay, rose Manhattan Island</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">The awesome Apple and her Civilisation and… Freedom</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Reflecting, at night, her sparkling lights on the water</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Lady Liberty out there holding her torch to no one&#8217;s edification</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">On a smuggled radio in the barracks</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">The news related the Woodstock Festival</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Hard Rock Music and Sex and Drugs</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Youngsters making Love and not War</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">And<span>  </span>protest movements on dozens of campuses</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Resistors burning their draft cards in the streets</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Young women&#8217;s rights protesters reclaiming abortion</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Publicly emancipating themselves of their now superfluous bras…<span>  </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;"><span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Tonight, he would make a break for it</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Somehow sneak onto the ferryboat</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Leap off on the other side</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0 0 0 54pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size:small;">Or perish in the icy waves of the Hudson</span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Savannah                                               &#8221; Gone with the Wind…&#8220;                                                                Margaret Mitchell, (1900-1949)   Baptized in the sweet, indigenous vernacular of the Yamacraw The melodious, primitive tongue of native Tomochichi Chief witness to the coming of the tall wooden ships And &#8230; <a href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/savannah/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4771095&amp;post=12&amp;subd=edwardashleylamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:center;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;">Savannah</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;"><span>           </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><strong><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>                               </span><span>    </span></span></span></strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:&quot;">&#8221; </span></em><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN">Gone with the Wind</span></em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN">…<em>&#8220;</em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN"><span>                                                               </span></span></em></strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt;" lang="EN"><a title="Margaret Mitchell" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mitchell"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none;">Margaret Mitchell</span></a>, (1900-1949)</span></em><em></em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:&quot;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Baptized in the sweet, indigenous vernacular of the Yamacraw</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">The melodious, primitive tongue of native Tomochichi </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Chief witness to the coming of the tall wooden ships</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">And the arrogant conquest of Georgian civilization</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">On their board, aristocratic future dignitaries </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Assessors of a land they would designate as theirs</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Imposing the name of a distant, foreign monarch</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Strange sophisticated contrast of European consonance </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Other ships were soon to follow</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Intrepidly navigating on the broad ocean</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Charting new sea <em>routes</em> with compass and sextant</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Braving the elements and other, illegitimate pirates</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">From their dark entrails they would deliver</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Their proud cargo of cloth and tea and porcelain</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Introducing other exotic merchandise,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">The silk worm and the strong negro slave…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ammunition in neat pyramids of iron cannonballs</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Even the useless ballast of… English cobblestone</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Were to influence the course of History</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">And the eventual birth of the Old South…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>               </span>Complacently colonial, quaintly Victorian in style</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span> </span><span>              </span>Proud Bride of the ancient Confederacy </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Her powdered, white bosom still secretly nourishes</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Futile, nostalgic<em> </em>dreams of a long lost cause…</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Storybook patriots enshrined in shady downtown squares, </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Lend their aristocratic names to plotted, symmetrical streets</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">And sleepy, green parks with gushing fountains and bearded oaks </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Her<em> avenues</em> lined with opulent, proud Victorian mansions</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Elegant constructions of red brick or the local &#8220;grey&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Ornate balconies of sumptuously wrought iron</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Boasting gardens of fragrant magnolia and jasmine</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Domesticated negroes disguised in strict livery<em></em></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><em><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"> </span></span></em></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Humble servants to her blond, patrician progeny</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Today&#8217;s bankers or lawyers, doctors or dentists</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">They still reign as descendant Landlord and Master</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Over splendid <em>antebellum</em><span>  </span>plantations called Wormsloe or <em>Beaulieu</em></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Distinguished by an old, familiar southern accent </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Consciously savouring long vowels in a slow, languorous &#8220;drawl&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">In a last heroic effort to resist some long forgotten Enemy, <span> </span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;">Pretending to escape the ravages of Time and certain Decadence…</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:&quot;"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>                                                     </span>Juillet 2007</span></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Edward LAMB Ne le 11 janvier 1949 à Jacksonville (Floride, U.S.A.) • Dishonorable Discharge (U.S. Coast Guard) ; naturalisation française • Éducateur, professeur d&#8217;anglais (« free lance ») • Marié, père de trois enfants • Ouvrage à paraître : « &#8230; <a href="http://edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/welcome-to-edward-ashley-lambs-new-weblog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=edwardashleylamb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4771095&amp;post=6&amp;subd=edwardashleylamb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;text-align:left;margin:0 0 0 .7pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:#000000;letter-spacing:.15pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;">Edward LAMB</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white;line-height:10.55pt;text-align:left;margin:9.85pt 0 0 .7pt;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#000000;letter-spacing:-.1pt;">Ne le 11 janvier 1949 à Jacksonville (Floride, U.S.A.) • Dishonorable Discharge (U.S. Coast Guard) ; naturalisation française • Éducateur, professeur d&#8217;anglais (« free lance ») </span><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#000000;letter-spacing:-.05pt;">• Marié, père de trois enfants • Ouvrage à paraître : « <em>Running Scared : Memories of a </em></span><em><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#000000;letter-spacing:-.2pt;">young fugitive </span></em><span style="font-size:8pt;color:#000000;letter-spacing:-.2pt;">» (nouvelles).</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:center;margin:0 0 0 27pt;" align="center"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';">Bon sang ne saurait mentir<span>   </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:left;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span>                                              </span></span><em><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Alea jacta est…</span></span></em></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Le vieux Roi Laïos est mort.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Ci-gît le géniteur déchu ;</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Indigne, sans doute, de sa noble progéniture,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Par la chair de sa chair se perpétra sa perte.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">A l&#8217;Origine, le Ver est dans le fruit.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">De ses entrailles corrompues est issu</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">L&#8217;instrument de l&#8217;antique Malédiction,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Condamné, malgré lui, à s&#8217;abreuver du sang ancestral.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Aveuglé par une multitude de Passions obscures,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">L&#8217;enfant parricide, inconscient, s&#8217;exécute,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Obéissant, en cela, à son tragique Destin</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Et l&#8217;omniscience de <span> </span>l&#8217;Oracle. </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Terrible Révélation devant laquelle la Raison vacille, </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Victime, à son tour, de l&#8217;inexorable Fatalité,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Cette superbe Intelligence &#8211; l&#8217;arrogance des mortels &#8211; </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Impuissante, soumise à l&#8217;arbitraire des Dieux jaloux.</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Dérisoire Existence où l&#8217;enfant de l&#8217;Homme</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Croit, par son crime, s&#8217;affranchir du Tyran,</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Puis, se couche, inquiet, dans ce lit usurpé</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;">Que lui envie déjà son jeune héritier…</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:27pt;text-align:justify;margin:0 0 0 27pt;"><span style="font-family:'Comic Sans MS';"><span style="font-size:small;"><span>               </span><span>                  </span>Edward Ashley LAMB</span></span></p>
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