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...other," notes Critic Brian O'Doherty, "there are large areas for misunderstanding." O'Doherty, who paints (under the name Patrick Ireland) and also teaches (at Barnard), attempts to correct any such misunderstandings about eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth and Joseph Cornell. Despite the use of a good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis' exuberant jazz-age Cubism. Convincingly, O'Doherty sees...
...maze of companies like a pear-shaped Minotaur, Lloyd seemed, until lately, to have created an impregnable position for himself. But next fall Marlborough goes to court to defend itself in a civil suit almost without precedent in the art world. The heirs of the late abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, together with the New York State attorney general, are charging that Marlborough and the executors of Rothko's estate conspired between them to defraud the estate by grossly undervaluing the paintings...
...speak of a "comeback" by an artist as conspicuous as Motherwell may seem odd, but it has a certain point. At 57, he is one of the last charter members of the New York School of the 1940s to remain alive and painting. Pollock, Gorky, Rothko, Kline, David Smith, Hofmann, Newman and Reinhardt are all dead, and their work has been so long discussed, labeled, ticketed and run through the meat grinder of mass art education that it has already assumed the air of an august period style-the last "heroic" American art. The absurd consequence has been that...
...purple across the grid is so eye-fooling that, after a while, analysis stops; instead, one submits to the pressure of light that emanates from the field. Color becomes an absolute phenomenon; it needs to depict nothing to reveal its action. It may be that no American painter since Rothko has contrived to transform pigment into meditation more effectively than Zakanych. "I got completely sick of all the cool, boring, systematic painting that was around in New York a few years ago," he says. "I'm trying to break that down." And, it seems, succeeding...
...Deal liberal who receives $3,500,000 from his parents as a little wedding gift, Henry has been an effortless and graceful overachiever. All that can be obtained by caste, money, good looks, charm and intelligence belongs to him. His home is decorated with originals by Renoir, Rothko and Braque, as well as by a wife who is very nearly as elitist as himself. He stars at academic conferences and commutes to Washington to advise an old friend and fellow millionaire, Bill Laughlin, about his ascending political career...