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John Galbraith Simmons reviews Joel Warner’s “The Curse of the Marquis de Sade: A Notorious Scoundrel, a Mythical Manuscript, and the Biggest Scandal in Literary History.”. ....
Julião Sarmento. Photo: Paulo Pires. IT COULD BE SAID that Julião Sarmento’s major theme was desire. In his work, we are repeatedly faced with opposing points of view subject and object, voyeurism and blindness, dream and reality that repudiate the male gaze by undoing the rote equivalencies between possession and existence. The Lisbon-born artist’s evocations of bodies, often partially or completely erased, demonstrate nothing so much as the impossibility of reaching a final representation of anything; his unsettled forms cling to the illusion, nearly disintegrated today, of an unattainable, secret image. Beginning in the 1960s, Sarmento constructed an art that combined conceptual and thematic coherence with fluency both in a wide range of media (painting, film, installation, performance, sculpture, architecture) and in methods of production; his practice embraced active participation and dialogue with successive generations and cultural contexts. The consistency o ....
by Tom BirchenoughTuesday, 19 January 2021 Into the woods will never feel the same again Catalan director Albert Serra’s interest in late 18th centuryFrance is well established – his previous film was The Death of Louis XIV – but the title of his new one has precious little to do with the triadic Catalan director Albert Serra’s interest in late 18th centuryFrance is well established – his previous film was The Death of Louis XIV – but the title of his new one has precious little to do with the triadic revolutionary slogan that swept away the French monarchy at the end of it. If ....