By Roy R. Behrens (2005). 7 x 5 in. 96 pp. Illustrated (including author’s “visual poems” for Gertrude Stein). Bibliography. Full-color dust jacket. ISBN 0-9713244-1-7. List price $17.95. Click here to order onlinehttps://www.amazon.com/Cook-Book-Gertrude-William-Corbusier/dp/0971324417shapeimage_2_link_0
COOK BOOK: Gertrude Stein, William Cook and Le Corbusier Ulla Dydo (renowned Modernist scholar, author of The Language that Rises: The Voice of Gertrude Stein)— “[This book] jumps out at my eyes, my ears. It comes from everywhere, never drags those even blocks of print that dull the mind. Look at it, read it, let it tease you: it’s researched with all the care that keeps its sense of humor and its visual and voice delights. Travel with it, leave home, go and explore the many ways for a book to be a house for living.” Paul Padgette (Stein expert)— “[A] delightful little book…a high point in recent scholarship on Gertrude Stein.” A highly readable, playful and always amusing account of the long-term friendship of Stein and an Iowa-born expatriate painter named William Edwards Cook (1881-1959). It was Cook who taught Stein to drive, and it was she who introduced him to the work of the Swiss-born Modern architect, Le Corbusier. Eventually this brought about the commissioning by Cook of his Paris residence (still intact), called Villa Cook or Maison Cook. Based on unpublished letters between Cook, Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
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