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With Camera Obscura. The Daniells landed in Calcutta in 1786. spent two years making sketches of the city for a series of aquatints. The pictures were published back in England with such success that the artists decided to penetrate into upper India on "guiltless spoliations'' of more picturesque...
Old Laundry Bags. The most striking use of canvas in the entire show is not in a painting at all. Second-prize winner of $1,500 is an enormous construction of steel rods, copper wire and remnants of tarpaulin titled Untitled (57) by Lee Bontecou, 32. Combining symbolic materials on...
Lee Bontecou, a blonde loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness...
What Roth discovered in Letting Go was a great prairie of writing space. "It was like being an artist and discovering a big canvas. It was the most exhilarating writing experience I ever had." Updike, who is a miniaturist, calls Roth's novel "overblown," but what limits the book...
Often an Okada painting will suggest a bit of landscape or sky, but sometimes, as in Memories, the images simply float across the canvas like some sort of exquisite flotsam. In the last five years, Okada's palette has grown increasingly muted, and his colors have a weathered look...