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...wonderful story," Updike says. "That this terribly handicapped man handicapped by his alcoholism, limited in his intelligence, in his skillswent into the countryside, and this flood of light somehow entered his work." With darkness by its side, as Updike well understands. He takes art seriously. For more than 20 years he has been producing a good-size body of art criticism, reviews full of nuance and sharp eyesight. Once an aspiring cartoonist, he majored in English at Harvard but studied afterward at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford. His first wife was a painter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: All the Wounded Gods | 11/18/2002 | See Source »

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