Word: peepers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...artifice, and with it the shadow side of the American dream of reinventing lives. The one time Marlowe enters a Hollywood stage, it is from the back, and that, in a sense, is his customary position: seeing glamour from behind, inspecting illusions from the inside out, a two-bit peeper spying on the rich man's costume ball from the service entrance. His is a Hollywood filled with missing persons, bit players who are living a long way from the lights: gigolos, gold diggers and snooping old women, remote-controlled punks and "the kind of lawyers you hope the other...
...paintings are full of references to other art, usually of a rather arcane sort. But they seem casually, even inattentively deployed, coming out not as formal homages to this or that master but as a function of temperament. Like Bonnard, whose work he reveres, Hodgkin is a fidgety peeper into secular paradises and controllable realms of pleasure. But as befits a painter who makes no bones about his belief in the continuity of past and present, part of the pleasure lies in the conversation between his work and its sources...