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Title
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Fables and Fantasies
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Description
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Donald B. Kuspit
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Creator
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Kuspit, Donald B.
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Contributor
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Various
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Date
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2016-01-25T16:07:57Z
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1991-04
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1988
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T16:07:57Z
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Date Issued
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1988
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Abstract
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A glossy exhibit catalogue of a show united around a central concept. These forty-four recent works are related by their use of myth, legend, or personal fantasy as a mode for expressing the troubled human condition in the face of the anxieties and uncertainties of the `post-modern' world (Michael Mezzatesta, the museum's director, on 4). Kuspit writes Most of the works are narrative; they obviously depict human affairs. More significantly, they are implicitly allegorical. They...articulate a myth of humanness (6). Even more specifically, they are about lost human integrity. Kuspit devotes several paragraphs to what these artist fablists attempt to accomplish. I find the works of Gingerich, Howson, and Campbell most engaging.
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Identifier
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938989014
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1873 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Duke University Museum of Art
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Durham, NC
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Subject
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N6487.D85 D8 1988
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Tangential book
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole