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This web work was created after the author visited the exhibition of Dr. Gachet's Collection
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as a meditation on how art criticism and theory
can affect art appreciation.

Quotations in black are all from Meyer Schapiro's "Modern Art",
often used as a textbook by students of the arts.

The artwork copyright resides with the following institutions; scans of the originals
were prepared by Mark Harden, but have been altered for this presentation.
Mr. Harden maintains the Artchive, a site that has become required viewing
for anyone on the net who is interested in the arts. You can support this effort
by becoming a patron of the Artchive.

It should be noted that both Picasso and Matisse credited Cezanne for aspects
of the work they created after viewing his.

A print version of The Birth of Detachment is available through PaperBrainPress.
The work has been published online by Iowa Review Web.

-- Jennifer Ley ______________________________________________________