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October 1998 Volume 17, Number 2  

London journal

A disagreeable aroma
by John Gross
On the decline of the BBC


Features

Rousseau & the origins of liberalism
by Roger Scruton
The second in a series titled The betrayal of liberalism

Bonnard and "the stupidities"
by Hilton Kramer
On Bonnard, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York

The greatest Victorian
by Roger Kimball
On Walter Bagehot

Partying on Parnassus: the New York School Poets
by John Simon
Occasioned by David Lehman's The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets


Poems

Georgic
by Phillis Levin


Art

An anniversary in Montreal: "Refus global" at 50
by Karen Wilkin
Borduas and the Automatist Epic at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal &Peinture, Peinture at the Belgo Building, Montreal

Exhibition notes
by Mario Naves
On Vilhelm Hammershoi (1864-1916): Danish Painter of Solitude and Light, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Exhibition notes
by Mario Naves
On Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York


Books

A bundle of paradoxes
by Daniel Silver
On Daniel Defoe: The Life and Strange, Surprising Adventures by RichardWest

"Not a very loud voice"
by Brooke Allen
Review of Osbert Sitwell by Philip Ziegler

A clean, well-lighted place
by Mildred F. Schmertz
Review of Towards a New Museum by Victoria Newhouse


Letters

An opacity of hopelessness
by Christian Caryl
On Muscovite cinema & self-image