if they could have. Their profession, as it always had been, was teenth-century collection, the Andre Meyer Galleries, was that a chancy one, so why should the government receive taxes...
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ART curators explain Daumier's depictions of Quixote as...
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ther. It is rational skepticism as a...
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ONLY 581 SUPERMARKETS AFTER HENRY Joan Didion Simon & Schuster, $21.50, 336 pp. Lee Siegel he title piece of Joan Did-ion's new collection of twelve essays covering politics and culture in...
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ROUND & ROUND WE GO THE GUGGENHEIM REOPENS In the early part of this century, maverick exhibitions of avant-garde art, like the one the fauvists put on in Paris in 1905 orthe New York Armory Show...
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THE VISION OF MANTEGNA CAPACIOUS, COMPLEX & WHOLE ndrea Mantegna (c.1431-1506) was the most skillful practitioner of the illusionist perspective known as di sotto in sii, or "from the bottom...
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AN UNFLAPPABLE MUSE VLADIMIR NABOKOV The American Years Brian Boyd Princeton University Press, $35, 783 pp. Lee Siegel Though he hoarded the physical details of existence with the exactness...
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ART NUDE IS LEWD? THE DRAMA OF THOMAS EAKINS Someday (alas) Hollywood will beat a path to Thomas Eakins's grave. Jealousy, betrayal, scandal, and tragedy rocked his dedicated life. A...
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ART TRANSCENDENTAL LONGINGS THE WHITNEY'S TWENTIETH CENTURY very other spring New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art puts on its biennial, an exhibition meant to give the public a...
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CRITICAL MIND, STUBBORN HEART SELECTED WRITINGS: 1950-1990 Irving Howe Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, $34.95,490 pp. Lee S i e g e l rving Howe's writings continue to enact the tension between...
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sick, several parishioners called to find out how I was doing. I had a hard time welcoming their affection because I have yet to learn how to accept love. I'm not so hot at giving it either, but...
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THE BURNING SEASON The Murder of Chico Mendes and the Fight for the Amazon Rain Forest Andrew Revkin Houghton Mifflin, $19.95, 317 pp. THE WORLD IS BURNING Murder in the Rain Forest Alex...
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BOOKS Empowered to forgive Torture is absolutely evil, and in the moment-or the hours-of its infliction, its victims are absolutely innocent, even if their crime was heinous. Most of the Brazilian...
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A TRASHY WAR ON RUBBISH TENURED RADICALS How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education Roger Kimball Harper & Row, $18.95, 204 pp. Lee Siegel By now the least informed member of the...
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