Comment on Meryle Secrest's 'Modigliani: A Life' tells the agony behind an artist's ideal

Meryle Secrest's 'Modigliani: A Life' tells the agony behind an artist's ideal

Most biographers of Amedeo Modigliani recognize him as a pioneer of modern art, but a self-destructive one, debilitated by drugs and alcohol. Meryle Secrest's "Modigliani: A Life" sets out to debunk this interpretation, instead emphasizing "the trials Modigliani underwent in the struggle to create and the role his art played in the fulfillment of an ideal."

 

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