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PAINTING LIFE
To The Best of Our Knowledge
from Wisconsin Public Radio
From the minute we can pick up a crayon, most of us
want to draw something – a house, a tree, the sun. As we get
older we aim for nuance and sophistication – landscapes and
shadows, faces and expressions. A gifted few will achieve something
greater – they'll make art. In this hour of To the Best
of Our Knowledge, painting life, from the ancient caves at Lascaux
to a master of modern criticism.
SEGMENT 1:
Susan Vreeland has written three novels about
painters: Girl in Hyacinth Blue, The Passion of Artemesia
and now The Forest Lover. She tells Jim Fleming why she's
so attracted to the world of art, and why Emily Carr, the subject
of her latest book, loved the First Nations' people and their
art. Also, Evan S. Connell is the author of eighteen books
and has won numerous awards and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest
book is called Francisco Goya: A Life. Connell tells Anne
Strainchamps that Goya painted what he saw. His nudes are real
women not goddesses, and his war paintings are bloody and terrifying.
He was a court painter who barely escaped the Inquisition, but
his work ushered in modern painting.
SEGMENT 2:
Clayton Eshleman is a poet who's turned his
poetic sensibility loose on the paleolithic cave drawings at Lascaux
in France. He tells Steve Paulson that these drawings represent
shamanic spirit journeys and rituals. His book about Lascaux is
Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination & the Construction
of the Underworld.
SEGMENT 3:
Larry Watson tells a story about beauty,
art, obsession and betrayal in his novel Orchard. He tells
Jim Fleming that he thinks artists are bound by the same moral
codes as anyone else and that creating the artist at the center
of his new novel gave him a chance to explore his "inner
bastard." Also, art critic and historian Michael Fried
talks with Steve Paulson about his early days in New York
and his friendship with the gifted and difficult dean of American
critics, Clement Greenberg.
Cassette copies are available
at 1-800-747-7444. Ask for program number 04-03-07-B.
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Books:
- Evan S. Connell, Francisco Goya: a life
(Counterpoint)
- Clayton Eshleman, Juniper Fuse: Upper
Paleolithic Imagination & The Construction of the Underworld
(Wesleyan)
- Susan Vreeland, The Forest Lover: a novel
(Viking)
- Larry Watson, Orchard: a novel (Random
House)
Music:
- Button after Vreeland: Bob Dawson “Searching”
from Breaking the Rules Audio Alternatives AA 2626 (P.O. Box 405
Chappaqua, NY 10514)
- Button/Option after Connell: Joan Cabanilles: Batalla
Imperial Performed by Hesperion XX , directed by Jordi Savall
Alia Vox 1998 AV 9801
- Button/Option after Eshleman: John Danley “Baba
Ganouj” from Canvas & Rhythm www.mp3.com/JohnDanley
Johncdanley@yahoo.com
- Button after Watson: John Danley “El Greco
Shuffle” (see track above)
- Close Music: Kraig Kenning “Sonic Blues”
from Maktub kraig@kraigkenning.com
(E-mail) www.kraigkenning.com
(web)
Distribution dates:
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be addressed to: flemingj@wpr.org
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