When Linnet visits her " father's painter chum , " Stephen Ross - Colby , he dismisses Angus's work as " all small stuff . ” In contrast , RossColby had " come into his own as an artist by then , selling wash drawings of Canadian war ...
Woodcock's comments on “Irina" are particularly relevant ("Memory, Imagination, Artifice," 80-2), as are Keefer's on the unsatisfactory nature of the uncollected story that dates from this ...
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The essays in Learning to Look are short, accessible, and personal. Each one arises out of an art encounter - in a museum, listening to records, or going to a concert.
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And this is where their value lies. Each of the short writings collected here is an exercise in giving art and myself the time to let something happen; I try to do this work so that art may do its work.
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