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CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...their order, entitle him to be seen as perhaps the greatest psychotic artist whose work has come down to us. And some are known only to specialists. Among these are Heinrich Hermann Mebes (1842-?), whose tiny visionary-symbolist watercolors fall somewhere between Philipp Otto Runge and Persian miniatures; and Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), with his fearsome moralizing fantasies; and the mental patient Karl Brendel (1871-1925), whose tiny, intense woodcarvings are so close in spirit to German Expressionist sculpture...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
...program note to her startling, macabre -- and, on opening night, lustily booed -- new production of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor at the Metropolitan Opera, Francesca Zambello cites as inspiration the gloomy tales of Edgar Allan Poe and the brooding landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich, both contemporaries of the composer. Maybe. But those with an eye for contemporary culture -- and the weekly grosses of Francis Ford Coppola's latest film in Variety -- can see that the real influence is one Mr. Zeitgeist. The Bride of Dracula, anybody...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Otto Friedrich, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...