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pylons and, at the same time, looking like diagrams of striding
Egyptian figures. A massive, chunky piece in wood,
Mull,
translated
these notions back into the ladder format and into robust volumes.
The danger is, of course, that the ladder motif will dominate,
so that we simply recognize rather than
see
the sculpture. Boepple is
alert to the risk and, I suspect, even welcomes it; the gap between
the known and the unpredictable is where he chooses to work. The
difference between what we know and what Boepple actually builds
can be provocative.
In
his best pieces, he makes us check our
recollections against his eccentric constructions and in doing so,
makes us question both our perceptions and our preconceptions.
And he does it without a text.
Coming in
Partisan Review
• Raymond Aron:
A Memoir
• Julia Kristeva on the French Revolution
• Tsvetan Todorov on the Enlightenment
• Luc Ferry and Alain Renaut on 1968
• Jed Perl on Salvador Dali
• Stanislaw Baranczak on Joseph Brodsky
• William Phillips:
The Function ojCriticism Today
• David Bar-Illan : Israeli Letter
• Nathan Glazer on Life in the Bronx
• Sonya Rudikoff on Virginia Woolf
• Edith Kurzweil on Peter Gay's
Freud
• Paul Hollander on Fellow Travellers
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