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VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter returns to show her work in Toronto, where she grew up, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
VICTOR PASMORE, the Phillips Collection, Washington. Honoring his 80th birthday, a recap of the influential British painter's journey through realms of naturalism and abstraction. Through April...
...Margaret Atwood (Doubleday; $18.95). A middle-age painter is lured back to Toronto, where she grew up, by a retrospective showing of her works, and falls into a quirky, brilliant meditation on childhood as seen from the middle distance...
Elaine is a painter based in British Columbia, "as far away from Toronto as I could get without drowning." Only a retrospective of her works lures her back. But the praise of young feminists seems ignorant or condescending, and the town's gleaming new facades have an even worse effect. "Underneath the flourish and ostentation," she decides, "is the old city . . . malicious, grudging, vindictive, implacable. In my dreams of this city I am always lost...