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History Book Frames Artworks as the Stars of the Silver Screen
Kim Novak in "Vertigo."  Steven Jacobs and Lisa Colpaert
introduce The Dark Galleries, a book published by Aramer in the
US on March 31, by observing how an English policeman in Alfred
Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) pauses to look at a reproduction of
Picasso's 1931 cubist painting "Pitcher and Bowl of Fruit" in
the home of a shady playboy (Cary Grant) and his potentially
doomed wife (Joan Fontaine).  The moment contributes nothing to
the advancement of the story but was almost certainly intended
by Hitchcock as a joke on the suspicion in which modern art was
then held by the masses. In the extensively illustrated book,
Jacobs and Colpaert situated the Picasso amid 16 works by modern
artists–among them Degas, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Klee, and Roualt–so
disdained by "right-thinking' people that they are owned by the
evilly inclined.  The paintings that dominate The Dark
Galleries, a nearly