Word: cataloger
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Inevitably, the centerpiece of the Biennale is the U.S. pavilion with its show of Jasper Johns' work since 1974, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and treated to a piercing catalog exegesis by its curator Mark Rosenthal. , Johns' presence at the Biennale seems to close the American parenthesis that Rauschenberg opened there 24 years ago, and one leaves it convinced he is the deepest of living American artists, a painter whose subtlety and richness of imagination stand beyond doubt even when, as sometimes happens, one cannot find a direct way among the hints, inversions, repetitions and false scents...
...will get the valuable catalog of hits by such artists as the Supremes, along with a roster of still working stars including Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson. Gordy, 59, will retain ownership of the sheet-music rights and the film division...
...Beardsley points out in the catalog, the search for an identifiable American style was one of the great cultural fantasies of the 1950s and '60s. Once found, it was assumed, such a consensus would enable Americans to pit their art with confidence against the School of Paris. And it was found in abstract expressionism and then in color-field painting -- both high styles and, in theory at least, sociologically neutral. Thus, writes Curator Beardsley, there appeared an "unwritten presumption that the nearer an artist aspires to the level of high art, the more leached out will become the ethnic content...
...emotional frazzle: they are often either provoking shards of dialogue (Put Yourself in My Shoes, They're Not Your Husband) or freighted single words (Fever, Fat, Careful). Most of these tales are culled from four previous books, with seven new entries. Of the latter, Elephant is a grimly funny catalog of woe from the soft touch in a remorseless family that lives on loans. None of the new material, however, has quite the impact of the best old stories. Feathers is a marvel, 18 pages that contain as many true surprises as a protracted piece of trickery by John Fowles...
...psychological truth ! (especially about adolescent sexuality) not known in the American narrative art of his forebears in the '30s. At his best he seems, roughly, a cross between Edward Hopper and the Philip Roth of Portnoy's Complaint. Thus it seems just right that Roth has written a catalog introduction to Fischl's current show in Manhattan, six paintings on view at the Mary Boone Gallery through June...