Word: portrait
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...Krasner (the excellent Harden) does: hanging around Greenwich Village in the 1940s, struggling to break away from his imitative work. Then we see him achieve his breakthrough and watch his burgeoning celebrity do him in. There has never been a more antiheroic biopic than this one. Or a better portrait of the artist as a hopeless mess. Harris' great performance has a kind of blank grimness; it contains not a single moment of charm or self-awareness. Harris never allows his exhibitions of Pollock's inexplicable gift to soften or redeem the man's monstrousness. The result is a harrowing...
...provincial chateau, in a round tower lined with books, Montaigne wrote the "Essais," his candid, quirkish, sometimes embarrassingly intimate portrait of himself. It was hardly an ivory tower: War and plague and fanaticism swirled around it. A thousand times, Montaigne wrote, he went to bed expecting to be murdered...
...explore themes of family and modern anxiety with dark humor. Chris Ware has the best design sense in comics, using everything from schematic diagrams to 1930s lettering, all at the service of the story and characters. "Safe Area Gorazde" brings journalism and comics together in an unforgettable portrait of the war in Bosnia. Sacco's detailed, realistic drawing style provides the pictures that had previously only resided in people's memories. At last we meet the complicated human beings, whose personal history is really the only one that matters, behind the "Balkan Crisis...
...underground contemporaries. "Ashbery was even then a hero to most of us," North explains. "However, the idea that he would ever be read beyond this small circle seemed an absolute impossibility. It's hard to remember that before 1976 when he won all sorts of awards [for "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror"] he was a genuine underground figure-and despised by the Academy. The whole thing is still mindboggling...
...three women photographers are two of my favorites, David Hilliard and Francesca Woodman. Also represented is Linn Underhill, who uses herself as her own model. She dresses up to look like a debonair of the late '40s, reversing the concept of drag queen to drag king. A portrait of a doll leg by David Levinthal, who takes large-format Polaroids of collectable fetish dolls, is included. A similar interest in surrogate female forms is found in Chris Komater's piece "Turner" (a reference to the film star Lana Turner), an assemblage of 24 photos of a blond...