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see all contributions from Art & Language Art Winslow

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    Framing the Shot

    Jeff Wall’s words pit the art historian against the conceptualist • David Rimanelli

    ... There is nothing unique or even special about the phenomenon of artists who write with distinction about art generally and their own practices in particular. History provides numerous examples...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    He is Curious (Yellow)

    In Ira Silverberg's home, Acker, Burroughs, and Cooper will always be the "ABCs of the library." • Elizabeth Schambelan

    ... branches extend into visual art (Andy Warhol and the Factory milieu, Jack Smith, Nan Goldin), pop culture (with an emphasis on the darker effusions of Vietnam-era Los Angeles, as represented by Manson...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    Analyze This

    In her stories, Lydia Davis scrutinizes everyday communication • Ben Marcus

    ... of our fears and desires. Her effort suggests that the creation of character could just as well be a matter of science as of art. And it's the empirical method of science, rather than an intuitive...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    A Second Sex

    A Second Sex • Sarah Glazer

    ...'Etudes Politiques. Malovany-Chevallier, recently retired from thirty-five years of teaching English at the institute, has translated works of art criticism and authored a book on linguistics. Committed and...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    Bard Day's Night

    Roberto Bolaño’s novel follows two madcap poets • Alex Abramovich

    ... not), parables, fables, theater of the absurd, pop art, haikus, epigrams (actually imitations of or variations on Catullus, almost all by Moctezuma Rodríguez), desperado poetry (Western ballads...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    Burning Bright

    The feline was more than a fancy for Carl Van Vechten • Clive Fisher

    ... misleads: Smalls errs repeatedly about Van Vechten's life and the world in which he moved. The book's aims are unfathomable; more mysterious still, the author himself, an associate professor of art...

  • print • Apr/May 2007

    A Tribe of His Own

    In his biography of Ralph Ellison, Arnold Rampersand accuses the author of turning away from the reality of black life. • Matthew Price

    ... Rampersad. "Both were hungry for fame, in love with art and ideas, and adoring of Western learned culture. Both Wright and Ellison admired and yet had also grown more and more critical of black culture...

  • print • June/July/Aug/Sept 2006

    A Million Little Theses

    From the archives: Curzio Malaparte became the Proust of the abattoir of Europe’s upheaval. Does it matter that he made it up? • Gary Indiana

    ... version of what happened makes florid use of his imagination. If all his work’s ambiguities are part of an aesthetic strategy, it follows that Malaparte enlarged the art of fiction in more perverse...

  • print • June/July/Aug/Sept 2006

    WOMB VERSUS WORLD

    Tess Slesinger created a scathing portrait of timid, ineffectual men in her novel of '30s intellectuals • Morris Dickstein

    ... run-on wordplay, around the metaphor of “the fast express”: “all aboard ladies and gay modern gents, try an art colony first, all aboard, no stops no halts no brooding there, all aboard the...

  • print • June/July/Aug/Sept 2006

    Salad Days

    Julia Child’s memoir recounts her culinary education in Paris • Justin Spring

    ... art than they were in eating and drinking authentically and well in haute-cuisine restaurants like Lapérouse and Le Grand Véfour and in smaller, less expensive establishments renowned for one thing...

  • print • June/July/Aug/Sept 2006

    DEAD CALM

    Roberto Bolaño’s imperturbable style • Wayne Koestenbaum

    ... shifting points of view, their allusions, and their autophagous tendencies, that the mere act of narration gilds disappearance, makes it bearable. Bolaño practices an art of resistance—against...

  • print • Feb/Mar 2007

    I Was a Teenage Führer

    Norman Mailer enlists a demon to tell the story of Hitler's early years • Mary V. Dearborn

    ... art of fiction after so many pratfalls. He clearly takes delight in what he’s doing—something we haven’t seen since his virtuoso writing in the ’60s. He merrily presents himself as an SS man...