Word: demonicism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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"I want art to look back at me," Surls told an interviewer a few years ago. "If it doesn't you might as well bury it in your backyard." There is a lot of autobiography in Surls' work, but some anguish, too, mingled with self-mockery. Of course...
The intriguing title is not a joke, nor is it an attempt to reach the Garfield market. It represents a searching effort to determine why a band of Parisian printers bludgeoned to death a lot of cats, notably including the master printer's wife's pet, then subjected...
Indeed, in The Penitent he still refers to Israel as "my late brother and master." Sinclair's luminous little volume is hardly the definitive study of the brothers Singer, but in its examination of sources it shows why Isaac has earned the title he once bestowed on another character...
What gives the exhibit its overwhelming character is the range and fecundity of Picasso's talent-the flashes of demonic restlessness, the heights of confidence and depths of insecurity, the relationships (alternately loving and cannibalistic) to the art of the past, but above all the sustained intensity of feeling...
North Korea reserves its special loathing, however, for the U.S. and South Korea. Americans are portrayed as demonic war criminals bent on enslaving the Korean people. Although U.S. analysts suspect that China is counseling Pyongyang against aggression, North Korea's tough and well-equipped armed forces (at 750,000...