Details

Subject(s)

• American literature—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Art criticism [Browse]
• Motion pictures—Reviews [Browse]

Library of Congress genre

• Essays [Browse]
• Reviews [Browse]

Summary note

Critical essays on art, American literature, music and the movies.

Contents

Amenoff's back in town -- Artaud on paper -- Jake the Red: the recent paintings of Jake Berthot -- Bonnard: master of intimacy -- Joe Brainard -- Rudy Burckhardt remembers -- Guy Davenport on Balthus and Cadmus -- Willem de Kooning, 1904-1997 -- Richard Diebenkorn at the Whitney -- Josh Dorman's new paintings -- Arthur Dove at the Addison -- Neill Fearnley's new work -- Neill Fearnley's alphabet -- Jane Freilicher and Fairfield Porter -- Clem the terrible: Clement Greenberg -- Philip Guston/Clark Coolidge -- Philip Guston: through the cadmium red door -- Jane Hammond's recent paintings --Pieter de Hooch at the Wadsworth Atheneum -- Robert Hudson and Richard Shaw: new ceramic sculpture -- Jon Imber: the world as mirror -- Yvonne Jacquette's new New York night views -- Carol Keller's new work -- Jon Kessler: work in progress -- Chris Komater's harem -- John Lees -- Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs -- Michael Mazur's new work -- Michael Mazur's trifecta -- Sam Messer, sketch for a portrait -- Wes Mills -- Rodrigo Moynihan: the late paintings -- The Nielsen Gallery at thirty-five -- Jed Perl: Eyewitness -- Photography in Boston: 1955-1985 -- Fairfield Porter -- Fairfield Porter: a life in art -- Soutine: Mr. Outside -- Andrew Tavarelli: coversations with Willie and Van -- Steven Trefonides -- Visual memoirs -- Davis von Schlegell -- Edward Weston: photography and modernism -- Trevor Winkfield's altarpieces -- Albert York: a port in air -- The American Poetry Review -- Basil Bunting: each pebble its part -- Hayden Carruth: Sitting in -- Steven Clay and Rodney Phillips: A secret location on the Lower East Side -- Robert Creeley and Elsa Dorfman: en famille -- Morton Feldman: Give my regards to Eighth Street -- Michael Franco's Word of mouth -- Allen Ginsberg: Holy Soul Jelly Roll -- Allen Ginsberg: 1926-1997 -- John Hollander: American poetry: the nineteenth century -- Fanny Howe: Selected poems -- August Kleinzahler: the Jersey kid -- John Koethe: Falling water -- James Laughlin of New Directions: 1914-1997 -- James Laughlin: the shadow figure -- James Laughlin: II -- Chistopher Logue's Homer -- Paul Mariani: a life of Robert Lowell -- Paul Metcalf's Will West -- Paul Metcalf: in the American grain -- Barry Miles: The Beat hotel -- Ange Mlinko: Matinées -- Publishing Musa -- Lorine Niedecker: Mother Niedecker's cupboard -- Frank O'Hara: two notes -- Charles Olson: the big O -- Joe Orton and Kenneth Halliwell -- Michael Palmer: later with a mashed potato -- Ezra Pound, anti-semite -- James Schuyler: poet of the present -- Chalres Simic: we'll talk -- Gustaf Sobin: The Fly-Truffler -- Summer Reading -- Joseph Torra: under the Jenney sign -- Helen Vendler's butcher shop -- Philip Whalen's novels and John Wiener's selected poems -- Philip Whalen: Some of these days -- William Carlos Williams: the new selected poems -- Jonathan Williams of the Jargon Society -- Journal poetics -- On reading -- Senator Eugene McCarthy -- A talk: 2/18/1984 -- Branagh's Hamlet -- Das Boot -- Larry Flint is porn again! -- Pablo Picasso asshole -- We are the real countries: The English patient -- Quinlan's Cane: Orson Welles's Touch of evil -- Ornette Coleman: a boxed set -- Monk: Live at the It Club -- Why you no forget?

ISBN

• 9781940396439 (paperback)
• 1940396433 (paperback)

OCLC

1049789630

RCP

C - S