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Men And Memories: A History Of The Arts 1872 To 1922 Being The Recollections Of William Rothenstein Part Two
Men And Memories A History Of The Arts 1872 To 1922 Being The Recollections Of William Rothenstein Part Two Author:William Rothenstein 1931. Volume 2 of 2. Sir William Rothenstein, amiable, bespectacled British artist who for five decades made competent portraits of celebrities, achieved celebrity himself with these anecdote-crammed memoirs about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso (the gigolo of geometry) and H.G. Wells (a great literary cartoonist). Sample Rothenstein sidelig... more »ht on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: He is my mathematician, said Einstein, who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician. A delightful and revealing read. Other volumes in this set are ISBN(s): 141793705X.« less