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Gilded and Patinated.

Magnifying the Fine Print.

by Blake Ferris (Paris-Boulevard Magazine, c. 1992) For most of the century, printmaking has been viewed as painting’s homely handmaiden. Does the print’s essence still lie in its fidelity to an original work? Gallerist Rachel Stella doesn’t think so. Whether you look at the Japanese woodblock reproduced in Manet’s famous portrait of Émile Zola or [...]
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BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz (V and end).

Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is  hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected HERE, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve Babitz is an artist, writer and [...]
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BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz (IV).

Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is  hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected HERE, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve Babitz is an artist, writer and [...]
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BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz (III).

Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is  hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected HERE, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve Babitz is an artist, writer and [...]
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Merleau-Ponty on Malraux.

BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz (II).

Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is (sometimes only lightly) hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected HERE, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve Babitz is an [...]
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Eve Babitz Interview.

BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz. Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is (lightly) hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected here, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve [...]

BaBits: The Hyper Eve Babitz (I).

Hypertext of the 2000 interview by Paul Karlstrom, made for the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Oral History Project. Maybe more texts later. The interview will be serialized as the text is (lightly) hypertextualized and media enriched, and collected HERE, where linking will probably continue after the initial posts. Eve Babitz is an artist, writer [...]
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Uranium Days. Notes on Uranotype Printing.

The Faustian secrets unlocked by the Manhattan Project scientists and their awesome consequences have eclipsed the earlier, more innocuous history of uranium, of which uranotype, a photographic process based on uranium chemistry, is only one episode. From the beginning, uranium was recognized as an element with a special relationship with light and color. Fifteen years [...]
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Adorno on Fireworks

The phenomenon of fireworks can be viewed as a prototype of art. Since it is evanescent, and since it is meant for simple entertainment, it has received only scant attention from aesthetics…Fireworks are apparitions par excellence. They are an empirical appearance free of the burden of empirical being in general, which is that it has [...]
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