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...this material in America. Art Historian Jack Cowart, who assembled it, wisely refrained from trying to cover everyone. Instead, he chose five "exemplary" figures, the most influential and (although his catalogue essay waffles on this point) the aesthetically superior ones: Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Anselm Kiefer, Markus Lüpertz and A.R. Penck...
Kenneth R. Markus, who is organizing the fellowship, said yesterday that students will be asked to transfer their pledges into the David Shelton fund, preferably adding to their initial pledges...
Smith prevented a shutout when Susie Gifford and Elisa Bronfman stopped Harvard's Wendy Markus and Lisa Doyle 6-0, 6-1, to take the third doubles...
...Irving Bender seems an unlikely hero, it is because he dwells in the midst of poverty-the poverty of faded tradition and of circumstance. Markus dramatizes this familiar condition with a laconic, willfully unliterary style. Her insights possess the character of aphorisms, translated into the sardonic, bantering idiom of immigrant Jews. "A lot you know," is the lesson Irving learns from his mother's death. When he invests in some paintings by an unknown artist who becomes famous, the novelist observes: "No one ever went broke seeing what was right in front of his nose...
Such grudging language achieves a cumulative power. Markus has a painterly sense of detail, building up scenes with a deliberate eye for the nuances of her characters' gestures and speech. Her vignettes of Camp Rose Lake, lingerie stores and Miami condominiums evoke a world where pride and purpose survive only by virtue of a resilient will. - James Atlas