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...Parenthesis, by David Jones. The author, a painter who sometimes turns to prose and poetry, uses an unorthodox but effective amalgam of both in this bitter novel about the total irony...
...American painter with a certain avant-garde reputation for his repetitious painting of three subjects: targets, arabic numerals and the American flag...
...peddlers of wooden spoons-everything mediocre." He himself was close to madness -a shabby, shuffling figure who dabbled in alchemy and black magic and once nearly committed suicide. He was addicted to absinthe, but he had one outlet that relieved him even more effectively than alcohol, Strindberg was a painter, and a startling...
...several score paintings and drawings now at the Museum of Fine Arts--a small fraction of van Gogh's total production--probably contain more of the artist than any other painter before or since has been able to impart. Vincent gave everything he had to his paintings. But more important, unlike most contemporary exponents of self-expression, he communicated what he expressed. He made his viewer sense the same vigor which he himself possessed...
Britain's David Jones is a painter by inclination, but twice in his long life he has taken time out to write a book. In both cases, the books were highly unorthodox and highly acclaimed in esoteric circles. W. H. Auden called Anathemata (1952) "the best poem written since the war." T. S. Eliot has called In Parenthesis "a work of genius." Jarred Image. Jones claims that he was exasperated into writing In Parenthesis by the failure of other writers to describe adequately World War I's battle of the trenches as Jones had experienced...