Alberto Giacometti, Portrait de James Lord, 1954
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- Monday, April 2, 2018 Giacometti and James LordPreparing for class this week, I reread James Lord’s book Giacometti: A Portrait. The book is broken into the eighteen sittings Lord did with Giacometti one fall, in September and October of 1964, for a painted portrait. Lord’s book was published ... more»
- Sunday, July 30, 2017 Sophie's Painting My cousin Sophie is dying. She is ninety. It seems likely that she will die today, and I hurry to write those words to use the present tense one last time. We were with her, all of us, at different moments in the last couple of weeks. My ... more»
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- Monday, November 20, 2017 Beckmann on Instagram at the VQRA piece I've been writing for a long time about Max Beckmann's Actors is running in fragments at the Virginia Quarterly Review. https://www.instagram.com/p/BbuldZKF-T8/?taken-by=vqreview ... more»
- Thursday, November 2, 2017 Review Essay on the Women of Surrealism in the Literary ReviewMy review of Whitney Chadwick's very interesting book The Militant Muse: Love, War, and the Women of Surrealism is in this week's issue of Britain's Literary Review. The opening can be read here: https://literaryreview.co.uk/current-issue ... more»
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