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abbeville blog abbeville blog skip to content home older posts october 4 2012 5 35 pm our renaissance in the coming weeks our blog will be restored stay tuned for an interview with carter ratcliff book reviews and incisive commentary by austin our blogger in chief see you soon leave a comment filed under uncategorized january 29 2009 4 50 pm dear abbeville ireland growing the abbeville blog has moved you can now read this post here 1 comment filed under dear abbeville tagged as dublin ireland james joyce ulysses scott adams dilbert january 28 2009 4 49 pm lit fans bid u adieu the abbeville blog has moved you can now read this post here leave a comment filed under art books and publishing tagged as denis dutton art instinct hub fans bid kid adieu james wood john updike rabbit run sylvia plath january 27 2009 4 42 pm design corner tea jacket the abbeville blog has moved you can now read this post here 1 comment filed under books and publishing design corner tagged as book design fonts tea january 26 2009 5 21 pm secretary of the arts petition the abbeville blog has moved you can now read this post here 4 comments filed under art tagged as bailout national endowment for the arts president obama quincy jones secretary of the arts january 23 2009 5 45 pm new feature dear abbeville not long ago reader julie weathers suggested a new addition to the manual of style a q a column called dear abbeville touched by her faith in the multifarious expertise we claim to have we couldn t let her down besides the pun on dear abby was too good to resist as of today the column is an official feature so we are soliciting questions from you our readers on the following topics art including painting sculpture architecture and design books and literature both old and new publishing the nuts and bolts of the business the state of the industry etc editing and language grammar punctuation diction usage spelling new york city new york city style e g travel luxury wine whatever this may mean to you the universe please restrict questions to those that cannot be better answered via our faq page or a simple web search blatantly self serving questions e g in your opinion how stylish is my personal website www monkeysuncle org will be summarily dismissed beyond that anything is fair game so fire away all questions should be submitted to the email address given on our contact page or via the comments form disclaimer accurate useful or even serious answers are not guaranteed not all questions submitted will be answered not all questions answered will be published that said we will do our level best on all of these counts except for the serious part 3 comments filed under art books and publishing dear abbeville new york the universe tagged as dear abby january 22 2009 4 42 pm oscar trivia quiz the abbeville blog has moved to read this post at our new location click here leave a comment filed under books and publishing events media tagged as academy award nominees oscar wilde oscars january 21 2009 5 38 pm inaugural style from abbeville s the white house its historic furnishings first families a few of you may have noticed that barack obama was sworn in yesterday as the 44th president of the united states we will leave political commentary in the capable hands of other blogs and instead provide an aesthetic appraisal of the ceremony in all its aspects the swearing in charmingly awkward obama seemed to trip over his lines with considerable help from chief justice john roberts reminded us of a groom stumbling over the wedding vows and in much the same way actually pointed up the significance of the moment foiled the news networks desire for a nice tidy sound bite the inaugural quartet shaker folk music by way of aaron copland by way of hollywood composer john williams no mistaking which country we re in here the arrangement was dignified and the performance as lovely as you d expect from all star quartet gabriela montero anthony mcgill itzhak perlman and yo yo ma the inaugural poem the less said about this the better although we realize it s hard to write a good occasion poem on relatively short notice for an audience of several billion aretha franklin s hat triumphant the speech quite successful especially for the genre contained no instantly quotable rhetorical flourishes but was well delivered obviously and skillfully argued in the passage about rejecting false dichotomies e g we ask not whether our government is too big or too small but whether it works the subtlest touch was actually the biblical quotation describing america as a young nation is a staple of almost all inaugural addresses but obama provided a highly original twist by citing paul s famous words in first corinthians when i became a man i put aside childish things left unsaid but surely meant to echo in the audience s mind was the rest of the passage with its summons to faith hope and especially charity the poignancy of a fairly young president telling a nation in crisis to grow up may well be the best remembered aspect of the speech and finally bush s exit more hasty than graceful 8 comments filed under events tagged as aretha franklin barack obama george w bush inaugural address inaugural poem january 20 2009 5 33 pm andrew wyeth r i p christina s world museum of modern art new york courtesy wikipedia as everyone will have heard by now andrew wyeth has died at the ripe old age of 91 we wanted to take a moment to remember him and of course to weigh in on his legacy since as his times obituary duly noted his work was both extremely popular and highly controversial wyeth touched a nerve in the midcentury art world for a few simple reasons he was a realist painter he had a public his most famous work christina s world was accepted into the museum of modern art in 1948 a provocative choice at the time his detractors saw him as a reactionary a purveyor of clichés and to quote e b white on critical slights against thoreau a kind of glorified nature boy others saw darker shades and deeper mysteries beneath the technically flawless surface his son jamie compared wyeth s paintings to robert frost s poems at one level it s all snowy woods and stone walls at another it s terrifying he exists at both levels he is a very odd painter the comparison is precise and apt frost too was dismissed by many as a regionalist hack until skillful readers and critics realized that poems like the most of it and directive were complex powerful universal and indeed terrifying in a peculiarly modern way now that the art world politics of fifty years ago are a relic and as the times summarized the traditional 20th century distinction between abstraction and avant gardism on the one hand and realism and conservatism on the other came to seem woefully inadequate and false we can assess wyeth s work too on its own terms without polemicizing about genre to be a realist is not necessarily to be a literalist to use an old fashioned idiom is not necessarily to lack new ideas christina s world is also wyeth s world distilled isolated alien disturbing fraught with an inexplicable cruelty that must be struggled against grimly why sort of like the modern world in terms of technique too wyeth was no complacent greeting card realist says the times the public seemed to focus less on christina s world s gothic and morose quality and more on the way wyeth painted each blade of grass a mechanical and unremarkable kind of realism yet the unwashed masses may have been on to something that the times and many critics overlook wyeth s obsessive fidelity to textures and surfaces often heightened reality almost to the point of abstraction in black velvet his portrait of a nude helga testorf reclining on the titular fabric the minutely observed velvet looks somehow softer and sleeker than the real thing and far stranger than abstraction could have rendered it the composition too has a beautifully abstract quality the nude seems at first to be hovering in empty space until the viewer looks closer and marvels at how rich that space really is finally speaking of helga testorf wyeth s having painted his neighbor for years unbeknownst to his wife and possibly having slept with her and making boatloads of money off the revelation either way is the kind of bona fide scandal the art world could really use these days we have a soft spot for that kind of juicy hoopla as well as for real life artist muse relationships cf d g rossetti and jane burden or if you prefer d g rossetti and his pet wombats lately the closest thing we ve had to shocking art gossip is the second rate aliza shvarts affair andrew wyeth we ll miss you 2 comments filed under art tagged as aliza shvarts andrew wyeth christina s world helga testorf robert frost rossetti wombat january 19 2009 8 22 pm blagojevich contest winner go hang yourselves all you are idle shallow things i am not of your element you shall know more hereafter and the winner of the blagojevich literary comparison contest is holloway mccandless whose apt comparison of the governor to twelfth night s malvolio came the closest to satisfying our nagging sense that blago emerged fully formed from a book somewhere as justification she cited the preening and the poetic overreaching the overestimating of one s position at court we d also mention blago s attitude of wounded dignity more hypocritical in his case than in malvolio s the analogy may not be perfect but it s close enough to earn holloway our stylish reader of the week award huzzah as a grand prize we are recommending holloway s own site the newly launched litagogo a guide to literary podcasts and are happy to do so because the writing on it so far has been first rate bonus style points to ms mccandless for working the phrases sub dickens beribboned aperçu and how we live now signifiers into a single post it s always nice to find a kindred spirit on the web also deserving of mention especially as he was effectively the only other contest participant is governor blago shakespeare a merry prankster whose site called illinois poet laureate features supposedly blago penned verse in the style of dylan thomas robert burns and lewis carroll among others well worth checking out before the governor tragically fades from the collective memory at least until the publication of his groundbreaking oeuvre that is and speaking of website recommendations an announcement we are hereby retiring the category head marginalia in deference to the elegant variation we had been using the term for many months congratulating ourselves on our cleverness before finding tev and realizing that mark sarvas was using it in essentially the same context and had thought of it long before we did rather sheepishly we ve continued calling our recommendations marginalia until now but today we are proclaiming the birth of a replacement term see also we will be titling new posts and emending old ones accordingly we ll miss marginalia a bit but we think the 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