The New Criterion
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April 1988 Volume 6, Number 8  

Features

Rembrandt as Warhol: Svetlana Alpers’s ‘Enterprise”
by Hilton Kramer

André Gide: Faust or Mephistopheles?
by Renee Winegarten

Talking “Terrorism” at Stanford
by David Gress
On the conference Talking “Terrorism”: Ideologies & Paradigms in a Postmodern World.

Marsden Hartley: at home & abroad
by Karen Wilkin

Is MOMA attempting suicide?
by Roger Kimball
On MOMA’s Contemporary Art in Context series.


Poems

A sea in the desert
by Leslie Norris

Insomnia
by David Sofield

The sun rising
by David Sofield

On a theme of X
by Henri Coulette

Belvedere
by Charles Edward Eaton

Summer beyond the garden
by John Edward Sorrell


Art

“Helga” and other problems
by William C. Agee
On Andrew Wyeth’s “Helga” paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe & other matters.

Just a glimpse at Giovanni Pisano
by Creighton Gilbert

Yes, yes
by Jed Perl
A gallery round-up.


Dance

Robbins, dances
by Eva Resnikova
On Jerome Robbins’s Ives, Songs.


Music

Kurt Herbert Adler, 1905–1988
by Samuel Lipman


Books

The trials of a poet
by Robert Richman
A review of New & Selected Poems, 1940-1986 by Karl Shapiro.

RLS meets TLS
by Bruce Bawer
A review of The Lantern-Bearers & Other Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson, edited by Jeremy Treglown.

Empire, the novel
by Brock Baker
A review of Empire by Gore Vidal.