abounding freedom
New in Arteidolia, a review essay on Julien Gracq’s Abounding Freedom, a collection of prose poems translated into English.
New in Arteidolia, a review essay on Julien Gracq’s Abounding Freedom, a collection of prose poems translated into English.
New in Arteidolia’s January 2024 issue, an essay on Jean Metzinger’s painting Le Gouter.
New in Arteidolia, an essay on Mexican painter Remedios Varo’s enigmatic The Juggler (The Magician).
In September’s Arteidolia, I have an essay on Barnett Newman’s intuition of the sublime.
New in Arteidolia is my review-essay of Night of Loveless Nights, the 50th anniversary reissue of second generation New York School poet Lewis Warsh’s translation of Surrealist Robert Desnos’ poem.
You may know her as the creator of the fur-covered tea set, but Meret Oppenheim also composed poetry. My review of a collection of her complete poems is new on Arteidolia.
My essay Marvelous vs the Absurd, in which I look at the complex relationship between these two fundamental stances toward the world’s intelligibility, has just been posted on Arteidolia.
New in Arteidolia, my review-essay on a new anthology of Beat and Beat-related poetry from California.
Robert Motherwell’s large painting Reconciliation Elegy has fascinated me since I first saw it in the autumn of 1979, not long after it went up in the then-new East Building of the National Gallery of Art. My reflections on the piece appear in the November number of Arteidolia.
Painter Ron Morosan and I have a second image-and-text collaboration in the new number of swifts & slows, a quarterly from Arteidolia.