Word: bontecou
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...American artists. I, a former billboard painter, was one of them. Leo brought an Old World appreciation, but an understanding of the American spirit, to New York City and the world. In the late '50s and '60s, with his first wife, Ileana Sonnabend, he discovered Rauschenberg, Johns, Stella, Lichtenstein, Bontecou and others. I had joined Bellamy's Green Gallery, but Leo brought visitors to my loft, including the famous collector Count Panza di Biumo. In 1964 I joined the Castelli Gallery and had my first show with Leo in 1965, with my 86-ft. painting F-111. Leo placed young...
Buckley's judgment is more complex in The Redhunter, an ingeniously symmetrical drama of the origins and psychology of communism and anticommunism. He has invented a young alter ego, Harry Bontecou, who goes to work for Joe McCarthy (an only lightly novelized version of the real Senator) and turns out to have been fathered by a secret onetime English communist. Buckley offers not so much an ideological evaluation of McCarthy as a portrait of a live character and force of nature--country-boy chicken farmer, charmer, weasel, patriot, bully, loose cannon and for all that, the spokesman for a valid...