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Matisse

This is a two-volume biography of Henri Matisse. I started the first volume, The Unknown Matisse.

From the preface:

"It is lack of detail that blurs and falsifies the accounts currently available of Matisse's early life, all of which are based on the same handful of recycled anecdotes. Constant repetition has turned these stories into the kind of ready-made image Matisse described as being to the eye 'what prejudices are to the mind.' I have tried to look afresh, taking as my text Matisse's saying: 'To see is itself a creative operation, requiring an effort.'"

 

 

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The second volume of a biographical graphic novel -- the story of a young
Iranian girl coming of age in France and Iran.


I got this one from a friend, Alex. It was OK.


I first learned HTML with a 10-minute book from this series. The beauty of
HTML in 1996 was that you really could learn it in a small number of
10-minute lessons. CSS is considerably more cumbersome, awkward,
and complex -- a betrayal of the spirit of the Web, in my opinion. A way for
designers to try to reclaim the Web from the masses. It's fun to use this book
because it brings back good memories of learning HTML in 1996.

 

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