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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Vanguard-ist in the renaissance of painting, John Currin traces its history from the nudes of Lucas Cranach and the mannerists to Fragonard and Boucher to modern life. Art Historian and author Robert Rosenblum interviews.
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One of the forerunners of American Minimalism, the painter and cultural innovator talks to BOMB’s art editor, Saul Ostrow about his life’s work; art that traces the second half of the twentieth century.
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Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire is one of this remarkable writer’s most vexing projects. Leading Nabokov critic and award-winning biographer Brian Boyd has produced a book length study, On Nabokov’s Pale Fire: The Magic of Atristic Discovery.
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The life of Mary McCarthy, one of the most controversial American intellectuals of this century, is paid tribute in this innovative biography, Seeing Mary Plain, A Life of Mary McCarthy, by former New Yorker fiction editor Frances Kiernan.
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Arto Lindsay’s ‘80s band, DNA, compounded New York’s No Wave sound into the ultimate punk howl. His work with the dean of Brazilian song, Caetano Veloso, and other Brazilian musicians opened North American ears to samba.
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Pulitzer-prize and Tony-award winning playwright Marsha Norman has just completed a run of her acclaimed play Trudy Blue. Painter April Gornik talks with Norman about a misdiagnosis that altered the lives of Norman and her character.
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