The Maverick's Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
Vivid, engrossing ... Less well known are the picaresque details of Barnes’s life, of which Gopnik...makes delectable use.
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Entertaining ... Gopnik ably illustrates the story of Barnes’s rise and his collecting, spiriting the reader along as Barnes flits from passion to passion, feud to feud. But though Mr. Gopnik does his best to present Barnes as a visionary collector with a novel conception of art, we leave the book unsure exactly of Barnes’s views, despite the collector having spilled pages of ink attempting to elucidate his theory.
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Breezy ... The tragedy of Barnes was that the things he could understand least held the key to what he loved mos
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