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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...combat. He also drew from sources far outside art. One of his favorites was an illustrated medical text about illnesses of the mouth. He worked from reproductions, movie stills and photographs of all kinds pinned to the walls of his studio and scattered on the floor in a sedimentary muck of paper, rags, used brushes and broken furniture that he would dive into for ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

...needs no more of. However, the case is that, in the cash-strapped world of letters, it is more important than ever that the moneys within are channeled to the warm bodies that can produce the next White Whale and not to skeletons that will merely rest in the muck. —Columnist Sanders I. Bernstein can be reached at sbernst@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Awards Should go to the Living | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...always have been, always will be") • Joe the Plumber is not a fan of efforts of to "make [conservatism] hip hop" • "outside the box" metaphor is clumsily employed by • party led by is referred to by as "an elephant that's become mired in its own muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paul Slansky's Weekly Index of the News | 3/13/2009 | See Source »

...hovers inches above the putrid waste below, all for a glimpse of naked female bottoms on the far side of the partition. For the next 600-plus pages of this satire of modern China, the reader is suspended in similar fashion - curious but teetering dangerously close to the muck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oh Brother | 2/26/2009 | See Source »

...woman bathing herself in a tub. He also drew on sources from far outside art, things like an illustrated medical text about illnesses of the mouth. He worked from reproductions, and from photographs of all kinds pinned to walls and scattered on the floor of his studios in a muck of paper, rags, used brushes and broken furniture that he dived back into for ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Francis Bacon: Tragic Genius | 9/25/2008 | See Source »

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