January 2010
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“In grad school, I was too cool to learn craft. I said I wanted to be...”
– Graham Gordy (p. 102) in “Why We Like Drama: A simple story well told.” As published in one of my new favorite magazine, Oxford American, Fall 2009 issue on pages 100-105.
December 2009
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“I’ve come to believe that beauty can be a very powerful conveyor of difficult...”
– Richard Misrach (via Michael Mergen)
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“What does it mean to say that Caspar David Friedrich is a quintessentially...”
– from Koerner’s Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape (page 23)
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Recently from the library
On Caspar David Friedrich
Vaughn, William. Friedrich. New York: Phaidon, 2004.
Leighton, John and Colin J. Bailey. Caspar David Friedrich: Winter landscapes. London: National Gallery Publications, 1990.
Koerner, Joseph Leo. Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape. New Haven, CT: Yale UP, 1990.
On Hudson River Painters
O’Toole, Judith Hansen. Different Views in Hudson River...
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“To be at all critically, or as we have been fond of calling it, analytically,...”
– Henry James, The American Scene, taken from The Home Place by Wright Morris
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“These are like a bunch of one night stands. We want to see a relationship!”
– Currently in crit