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NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames Coming into the Country, John McPhee Delmore Schwartz, James Atlas The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie Dispatches, Michael Herr Best Sellers...
NONFICTION: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames ∙The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, edited by Michael Davie ∙Dispatches, Michael Herr ∙Parallel Botany, Leo Lionni The River Congo, Peter Forbath
ANNE SEXTON: A SELF-PORTRAIT IN LETTERS Edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames Houghton Mifflin; 433 pages...
...does he do it? By reserve-literally, by inhibition, the mother of taste. Significantly, he entitled an early "self-portrait" of 1947-48 Homely Protestant, a phrase he picked at random from a page of Joyce. Motherwell was not the only Wasp among the New Yorkers who created abstract expressionism, but he was certainly the most conscious of his puritan background. The son of a California banker, he perceived America as a land of constraint-the abode, so to speak, of the superego. Pictorial sensuousness was something one escaped toward-across the Atlantic, to an imagined Paris, home town...
...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 (1976) are in black and white. The third, Linda (1975-76), is a color painting of the face of a red-haired woman in a red dress...