Word: af
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...rootedness. The big senior influences on his early American work were Ingres, Miro and Picasso--and among his contemporaries, the tragically fated Gorky, who would kill himself in 1948. "I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence," de Kooning wrote soon af-ter Gorky's death, and the Armenian painter's recurved, taut line, describing edge and implying volume in a single gesture, was preserved in the Dutchman's work. In fact, de Kooning's filial relation to Gorky resembled one played out in American art a century before: that of Frederic Church...
Since the course was an elective for me, I wanted an engaging class with an enthusiastic professor, but I came to feel that Af-Am 137y is not Professor Gates' priority. He has published four books in the last year; and in addition to chairing the African-American studies department, he is also the editor of Transition and writes prolifically for The New Yorker. How could he have the time to juggle all of these projects and simultaneously devote a lot of energy and hours of preparation to a class whose subject he knows inside out? Better yet, should...