The Undecider
Bonnard's changing place in modern art.
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Christopher Benfey is Mellon professor of English at Mount Holyoke. His latest book, A Summer of Hummingbirds, about writers and artists in Gilded Age America, has just been published by the Penguin Press.
Photograph of Pierre Bonnard art on Slate's home page © 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
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