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There are several artists - among them, the sculptors Carl Andre and Sol Le Witt and the conceptual artist Hans Haacke - who make it a practice to write a royalty clause into every contract of sale when they release a work. But they are relatively well-known figures and there is an established demand for their art. A young or obscure artist has no bargaining position on resale rights when a collector appears in the studio. Every year the U.S. art-education system cranks out more than 30,000 graduates, each with a degree saying "artist"; there is a glut...
...person whose story we follow through this curious world is named Hugh Person, sometimes mispronounced "you person." The young agent of a New York publisher, he is inclined to somnambulance and sexual self-doubts. The story itself consists of four visits which Person makes to the Swiss town of Witt, layered upon each other and made transparent to the narrating eye. So that there will be no future--only chunks of present and past--the last visit sandwiches the previous ones by beginning and ending the novel...
...time, Vermont was chic, and Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials...
...does Jane Cooper, 18, a pert Melbourne high school graduate, who emigrated there with three goats, several chickens and a number of cats brought along to stand guard against the bandicoots. Why De Witt? "I was frightened at the way life is lived today in our cities," says Jane. "I wanted to be alone, to have some time to think and find out about myself...
...Witt still has plenty of disadvantages. The cats so far have not much impressed the bandicoots, which occasionally scamper across Jane's face at night and persist in digging up the vegetable seeds she has planted in a small garden. But she has made a friend -a penguin named Mickey Mouse -and she is beginning to feel that "this is my world and my life . . . it is so beautiful here I can't imagine Melbourne any longer." To millions of citybound Australians, Jane has become something of a heroine, but most apparently want to share her adventures vicariously...