Tour de force not just when it comes to shedding fresh light on the beginnings of modern art but the first 3-4 decades of 20th century history， replete with clashing cultures and visions， endemic resistance to new ideas and changes along with institutional myopia so relevant to this very day。 Eakin offers a cast of ccolorful， anything but predictable real life characters and events of less than a years ago so vivid that his book often reads like a movie script。 Just a pleasure to read something Tour de force not just when it comes to shedding fresh light on the beginnings of modern art but the first 3-4 decades of 20th century history， replete with clashing cultures and visions， endemic resistance to new ideas and changes along with institutional myopia so relevant to this very day。 Eakin offers a cast of ccolorful， anything but predictable real life characters and events of less than a years ago so vivid that his book often reads like a movie script。 Just a pleasure to read something so well researched， thought out and written。 。。。more