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R human suffering an artist who etched his sympathy for fallen women and lesbians into his portraits and who remained loyal to the disgraced Oscar Wilde when the poet was abandoned and reviled by most Sweetman's enlightening study of Toulouse Lautrec has uncovered a man whose alliance with radicals and outspoken social critics such as Felix Feneon is implicit in his workToulouse Lautrec was also a man on the cutting edge of radical art He helped design the sets for the play Ubu Rio which with its foul language and politically subversive imagery stirred up a frenzy of public outrage and condemnation yet changed the course of theatrical history Toulouse Lautrec also created seminal works in the field of graphic art his posters a The book that br

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Toulouse Lautrec and the Fin de SiecleDvertising performances and artistic events were often stolen from their public posting places and reappeared in the living rooms of middle class homes making his posters the Trojan Horse of modern aestheticsToulouse Lautrec's seemingly endless capacity for debauched revelry and his larger than life persona are undeniable Yet hisart is as complex as he was varied and disturbing than it has been perceived in our century Sweetman has introduced in Explosive Acts an altogether new way of looking at Toulouse Lautrec who along with Oscar Wilde Felix Feneon and their cross Channel cohort of artists theorists and writers was responding to many of the same social issues and political currents we now face at our own turn of the century Good biography o