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Stuart Davis in Gloucester, by Karen Wilkin
Stuart Davis (1892 -1964), one of America's most widely collected and written about artists of the twentieth century, was instrumental in the development of American abstraction.
"It can . . . be argued that [Stuart Davis's] experience of Gloucester and the North Shore was not only paramount to his early understanding of Cubist space and fragmentation, but formed the basis of his mature aspirations for what a picture could be."
- Karen Wilkin
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Monster's Progress, by James Barsness
These spectacular, complex, mixed-media paintings of Jim Barsness fuse such disparate sources as medieval European religious painting and 1960s pop art to create haunting and sometimes bizarre scenes that alternately mock and celebrate various aspects of human behavior.
"An accomplished and quite stunning body of work."
- Los Angeles Times
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Postcards From Alphaville, by Raphael Rubinstein
In this genre-defying book, whose presiding spirit is filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, the autobiographical impulse is combined with a quest to blaze detours around conventional fiction and memoirs.
"[These stories] "will set the reader's brain afire."
- Walter Abish
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Porno Diva Numero Uno, by Stephen Berg
Told partly through imaginary conversations with Marcel Duchamp, Porno Diva is a semi-autobigraphical and sexually explicit exploration of the relationship of art to existence.
"From Joyce to Morrison the great accomplishment of the 20th Century was to establish what a Writer is. Not many are left, but Berg is squarely among them."
- Hayden Carruth
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Understanding Objects, by Vincent Katz
Recent poetry by Vincent Katz.
"In the curious timelessness of time, this writing makes a golden space of thought and echo, days of edges and sunlight, the warmth of just one and one. Vincent Katz pays a useful and particular attention to all that has come his way."
- Robert Creeley
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