On Art FROM RUSSIA WITH SPLENDOR BY BRADLEY W. BLOCH Leningrad's Hermitage Museum is one of the world's great art treasuries. Until recently those unable to make the trip to the Soviet...
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On Art POLLOCK WITHOUT DRIPS BY BRADLEY W BLOCH I have a lot of difficulty with Jackson Pollock. He is held as an American master, of course, and his canonization not only signaled the...
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On Art AWIDE-ANGLE VIEW OF PHOTOGRAPHY BY BRADLEY W. BLOCH In 1802 Humphry Davy, an English chemist, published an article that described attempts to record an image permanently on...
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On Art WASTEFUL IMAGES BY BRADLEY W. BLOCH The photographer Andres Serrano is in a peculiar situation—hardly anyone has seen his work, but almost everyone has an opinion on it. Like...
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On Art THE USE AND ABUSE OF REALISM BY BRADLEY W BLOCH George Bellows, who died in 1925 at age 42, has occupied a secure niche in American art history as " the fellow who did the boxing...
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On Art PIGMENTS OF THE IMAGINATION BY BRADLEY W. BLOCH Gustave Moreau, one of Matisse's painting instructors, told his students, "If you have no imagination, you will never be a good...
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On Art MIXED MOVEMENT AT THE WHITNEY BY BRADLEY W BLOCH Mass-produced objects are the common coin of contemporary society. That this isso has changed the way we consume everything from...
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On Art BLACK SATIRE AND BLEEDING HEARTS BY BRADLEY W BLOCH A good DEAX of the art created during the last 10 years has had a decidedly cool temperature. The rephotography of Sherrie...
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On Art WHERE WARHOL FAILED BY BRADLEY W BLOCH Andy Warhol: A Retrospective, on view at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) until May 2, is every bit the blockbuster show its planners hoped...
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