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In this tale of twenty-four photographs, Billy Kluver uses his gifts of research and narration to make us see and feel with Cocteau himself experience. How good it is to live for a while in a worthy world that is not our own. -- John Pierce, Visiting Professor of Music, Emeritus, Stanford University This is the kind of visual history, apart from works of art themselves, that is the most vivid and evocative. Kluver has not simply unearthed a suite of thrilling pictures, but he's managed to tell us, with all of the tools of the finest empirical history-writing, just how all the pieces fit. -- Kenneth E. Silver, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, New York University Kluver has brought off an astonishing feat. He has recreated an afternoon in Montparnasse so vividly and exhaustively that he has succeeded in illuminating a whole period of the artist's life and clarified key relationships. Thanks to his ability to apply scientific research and imaginative sensibility to iconographical problems, Klver is doing for twentieth-century art historians what Baedeker did for nineteenth-century travelers. -- John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso

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"Kluver has brought off an astonishing feat. He has recreated anafternoon in Montparnasse so vividly and exhaustively that he hassucceeded in illuminating a whole period of the artist's life andclarified key relationships. Thanks to his ability to apply scientificresearch and imaginative sensibility to iconographical problems,Klver is doing for twentieth-century art historians what Baedekerdid for nineteenth-century travelers." John Richardson , author of A Life of Picasso "An amazing feat of detective work." Michael FitzGerald , Artforum's Bookforum "Very amusing and almost wildly ingenious." Rosamond Bernier , New York Times Book Review

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An amazing feat of detective work.
*Artforum's Bookforum*

Very amusing and almost wildly ingenious.
*New York Times Book Review*