Word: microform
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After taking the elevator downstairs to the periodical room, I had 17 minutes left. The lady there explained to me that my desired article was in Lamont Library on microform. I rushed over to Lamont, fearing that if I were too late, the delicate secrets of African snail smuggling would fall into the wrong hands and be lost from the free world forever...
...that I spend a tremendous amount of attention to it on the page. Poetry is the most intense and ultimately is for oral presentation. The page is a key to that. The rhythm of the book, the way you move from one paragraph to another, they are not so microform. They're more macro. When I read prose aloud I feel a little useless. I'm sort of looking for the line breaks and they aren't there...
...copies he made after his own paintings and sent to his fellow painters Emile Bernard and John Russell to show them what he had been up to. As a draughts man, Van Gogh was obsessively interested in stylistic coherence. Just as one can movements of "his brush imitating the microform of nature-the scrawling striations of a gnarled olive trunk, the "Chinese" contortions of A weathered limestone-so the drawings break down the pattern of the landscape and re-establish it in terms of a varied, but still codified system of marks: dot, dash, stroke, slash. In his best drawings...
Close, 36, a tall figure with a patriarchal beard, works very slowly, his air brush patiently rendering each microform of flesh and hair like a polyp secreting coral. Each painting takes months to finish, and since 1970 Close has finished only 18 of them. Thus any show by him is an event of interest, and his current one at New York's Pace Gallery is no disappointment. It consists of three large heads - one of Close himself, two of his friends in the art world - and a group of studies and drawings for them. Self-portrait and Klaus...