What seems to be a constant is a feeling that it is miraculous that these works have come into being, and that they are unlike any other kind of drawing.
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Book Review: Colm Tóibin On Elizabeth Bishop
In some essential and large way, novelist Colm Tóibin gets Elizabeth Bishop right.
Visual Arts Book Review: Looking at Paintings Beyond the Comfort Zone
Daniel Arasse’s method has been defined by his students as “looking, [taking] pleasure and [being] imprudent.” Any and every detail of a work of art can serve as his starting point.
Book Review: “The Melancholy Art” — Art History and Depression
If I suffered half as much from the thought that most art has been lost as I suffer every day from the recollection of departed family and friends, I would be in a mental hospital. In this sense, I found myself resisting the message of “The Melancholy Art,” to the point that I felt that the book was laying a guilt trip on me.
Visual Arts/ Book Review: “Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures” — A Treat for Word-and-Image Fans
“Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures” is indispensable reading for word-and-image freaks and a treat for fans of virtuoso scholarship.
Book Review: Getting Closer To Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman is an exuberant poet, and fellow versifier C. K. Williams is exuberant about Whitman in this wonderfully perceptive introduction to his poetry. On Whitman (Writers on Writers) by C. K. Williams. Princeton University Press, 208 pages, $19.95 Reviewed by Anthony Wallace On Whitman is a meditation on the life and work of the […]
Short Fuse: The Revelatory Carnival of Andrei Codrescu
The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess by Andrei Codrescu, Princeton University Press, 248 pages, $16.95. Reviewed by Harvey Blume In 1916, as Europe waged an horrific war that, nearly a century later, makes even less sense, if possible, than it did at the time, refugees, renegades, draft dodgers, opportunists, revolutionaries and artists […]
Book Review: The Art of B.S.
A new book gives a philosophical analysis of American culture’s obsession with nonsense.