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...realism, of course, isn't life; it's like life. Nevertheless, looking has become a way of handling living, and the premise lurking behind any trompe l'oeil art-a Wyeth seascape, Anais Nin's diaries, cinema verite , Warhol soup cans-is that we come to grips with experience by scrutinizing a reproduction...
THERE are two visits and interviews included in the issue, one with Robert Bly, former member of the Advocate and a contemporary poet and magazine editor, and another with Anais Nin, an established European artist with a romantic past. The interview with Bly uncovers intriguing ideas and remains interesting throughout, largely because the focus is always on the artist himself as the interviewer stays discreetly in the background. The tone of the piece on Anais Nin, however, is established immediately in the first sentence: "It was more than we could ever have expected from ourselves." Very little emerges from...
...SAME childlike vision which guides his appreciation of art and the execution of his own art. The watercolors he does, beautifully presented in the film, are reminiscent of Paul Klec. whom he admires. Anais Nin, a close friend of Miller's who came to the film's showing at Emerson, compared Miller with Fellini in their love for clowns. Both have a great passion for the circus. Fellini once said that if he hadn't become a filmmaker, he would have been a circusmaster...
Miller is shown conversing and joking with some of his closest friends-Alfred Perles. Anais Nin, and Lawrence Durrell. Those meeting are not staged interviews but really show the intimacy between Miller and his life-long companions...
...stylish arguments which plagued that generation are talked out: Nin's temparament embraces Freud, despairs about America, succumbs to the disasters of World War II, and staves off the temptations of Marxism, even as she manages to repair her sensitivity. A remarkable scene in Caresse Crosby's Virginia house involves Dali, Henry Miller, and Nin shouting confusedly at the dinner table; another describes the exhaustion of New York literary society, drunken parties, jazz. The endeavor to write almost seems to subside before the need to simply go on. Even though she was eventually driven to publish her own works...