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Down below sit the houses so often touted on tourbooks and travel brochures, with picturesque stone walls and neat, well-kept shutters. If they were as authentic as the literature promises, they would contain quaint furniture, a wood-burning stove, maybe a kerosene lamp...
Puryear's work has the exact American-grain quality -- if not the episodic fussiness -- of that earlier virtuoso of the dovetail and the lamination, the sculptor H.C. Westermann. It also has some of Westermann's laconic humor. Sanctuary, 1982, is one such piece: a cubical box of thick wood mounted on two raw branches with the bark still on them, which turn out to be "legs," pedaling a wooden wheel -- a sort of absurd unicycle, designed for flight...
Views From the Front--Through Feb. 29. An exhibition of wood engravings from the American civil War. Nostalgia Factory, 324 Newbury...
...Judith with the Head of Holofernes, circa 1495-1500, are painted with matte gray gouache on fine linen, but they seem at first glimpse to be actual stone. So little in art is new: what Mantegna was doing with this play of illusion was not so far from the wood graining and stencils in Georges Braque's Cubist paintings more than 400 years later...
...while, at least. Then, as the days passed, I found myself falling further from Davey's immaculate ways. Temptation blackened my heart. Comparing myself to this perfect wood child, I began to see my flaws...