The Uncertainty of d'S Wife

"D believed that women could not be artists," writes the artist's wife. "She didn't resent it, because she learned so much more this way." The question of what is the question of what a human being actually was had never seemed so unanswerable. Without her he might still be an artist, but he would not really be a man. D was not the first male artist who have described women better than women seemed able to describe themselves.