Bernard Meninsky

Notebook

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Bernard Meninsky 1891–1950
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Created by
Bernard Meninsky 1891–1950
Title
Notebook
Date
Date not known
Format
Bound volume - notebook
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Nora Meninsky in 1982.
Reference
TGA 8225/3/5

Description

Bound volume with inserts and additional pages attached inside. Various extracts have been attached to the pages. Print, ink and graphite on paper and lined paper.

Scrapbook of manuscript and printed excerpts from books that Meninsky read. The subjects covered include work, art, love, self-love, pity, self-pity, self-confidence, knowledge of self, neurosis, mental illness, nervous breakdown, nature of genius, creativity, imitation, success, failure, personal satisfaction and good endeavour. Throughout Bernard Meninsky underlined the passages that were most meaningful to him in his search for enlightenment. Interspersed amongst the writings are some notes from conversations he had with his therapist, Dr Suttie.

Academic art Ashcan School Barbizon School Baroque Bloomsbury Camden Town Group Analytical cubism Dada Dutch Golden Age painting Eight, The Expressionism Fauvism Futurism Gothic High Renaissance Impressionism Mannerist Neo-romanticism Neoclassicism Northern Renaissance Post-impressionism Realism Renaissance Rococo Romanticism Sublime Surrealism Symbolism Tenebrism

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