A Balthus Notebook
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A Balthus Notebook

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Hardcover, 90 pages
Published November 13th 1989 by Ecco Press (first published 1989)
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Harry
Harry rated it 4 of 5 stars
This is the way most art writing should be done, I think. Since good artwork itself can never be explained, the best way to approach it is epigrammatically, associatively, with tangential connections and thoughts that lead in, through and out of the work but never try to capture or surround it. (I'm pretty sure I made up a couple words there. Sorry about that.)

That being said, Davenport is a smarty pants literary history type of writer whose readings tend to be symbolic and narrative...more
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