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...ink has been spilt this past decade on the question of who was or was not a "first-generation" Abstract Expressionist. Since America is apt to regard its artists as either seed bulls or vicarious aristocrats, the squabbles over lineage tend to be obsessive. But the historicist view of priorities has its shallows. Several fine painters who came to maturity in the 1950s have been blurred by the filter of Who Did What First...
...deployed; later still, the series that included Untitled, 1970, pushed the activity of color from the center of the canvas altogether, leaving the white void itself as the subject, speckled and edged with exquisitely laced drifts of color that Francis blurred, wet into wet, in imitation of Japanese sumi ink painting...
...politicos on how to win a Viet Nam reunification election: set up committees like "Viet Cong for Thieu," force special interests to contribute $10 million, protect donors' identity by routing contributions through Mexican banks, and send the money back to Saigon to buy "bugging equipment, miniature cameras, disappearing ink, forged letterheads-all the usual paraphernalia that anyone needs for a free and open election...
...kind in the world-was designed to nestle in the hand, and their ravishing tactile subtleties are lost behind glass. The largest are Suzuribako or writing boxes: a 16th century case with a gold-lacquer hare, or Kinyosai's delicately humorous image of a lady spurting ink from her mouth onto a wall to form the characters for "perseverance in love...
...declaring that "the Star will work on your yard." Lay the paper flat and anchor it, the ad advises, for erosion control. Or use it as a compost-pit liner: "It is good to have woody material like newsprint decomposing in your soil." Moreover, says the Star, "newsprint ink is like dessert. The ink contains valuable trace minerals in the seaweed-derived binder...