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Portraits & Passages
A Memoir of an Artist
Introduction - Narcissus Dancing A Performance in Photographs The Church’s Mercy
Table of Contents
Preface - The Return to Compassion; Art on the Demise of the Avant-garde
Book I
1 - Ship of Fools 2 - Sailing Against the Wind - Darthea Speyer, Jonathan Borofsky, Mel Bochner 3 - Father, Vulture, Holy Butterfly - Darthea Speyer 4 - Barbara Schwartz - "Joseph Accused by Potiphar's Wife" 5 - Elaine de Kooning 6 - Aladar Marburger - "A Heart of Darkness" 7 - Bill Jensen 8 - Pam Newhouse 9 - Roy Cohn, Joseph Papp, and The Public Theatre Hangings 10 - Madame Butterfly - "The Portrait of Jack Depp and Richard Magpion" 11 - "White Madonna" - Treasure Abandoned in a Closet 12 - John Bennett - "29 Downing Street" 13 - The Empire Striking Back, Judd Tully - "Flash Art" 14 - Leo Bates 15 - Robert Kushner - "Syda Yoga and Baba Mucktananda" 16 - Tompkins Square 17 - Philip Pearlstein - "The Barren Womb" 18 - The Magazines - Art News, Art In America, Art Forum 19 - The Advertising Page as Alternative Exhibition Space - Ingrid Sischy 20 - The Prodigal Son 21 - Thomas Gibson - "The White Man's Burden" 22 - Si Newhouse and the Post-Modern Before its Time 23 - Philip Pearlstein and the Rome Prize Recommendation Refused - Herbert Simon and Robert Lepper 24 - Faces 25 - "Ship of Fools" - History Repeating Itself 26 - The Work of Mourning 27 - Ashes in the Wind 28 - The Oven's Womb 29 - Entartete Kunst - Degenerate Art / The German Girl - "She Dreams She Flies" 30 - Lorenzo Pezzatini 31 - "German & Jew Like Siamese Twins" / Kasper Konig, Anselm Kiefer - "The Carnegie International" 32 - Knight Landesman 33 - Bucks County 34 - Friendships Left by the Roadside-Stories on the Wind 35 - Portraits: Messages From the Beyond Sent Through Time 36 - The Actor Hiding from His Muse- The Portrait of Larry Blauvelt-A Saintly Comedy 37 - The Abysmal The Censor Heedless on the Throne of Judgement-The Case Against Linda Nochlin 38 - Belle Tolls: A Retake 39 - The Outlaw Artist 40 - Serendipity- Alexander Calder and a New Years Message for Peace 1966 41 - Providence in Motion 42 - A Painting Abandoned in a Paris Basement 43 - Rocky and Bullwinkle 44 - Romance Found in the Paris Metro- Valley of the Kings 45 - Cross Purposes- Loyalty and Betryal- And Moving On 46 - Below the Salt 47- What is Fair to the Goose is Fairto the Gander- A spiritual Undertaking- A Godson Denied
Book II - Beginnings and Endings
1 - The Reluctant Ganymede 2 - The Pursuit of Seriousness, David Edward Byrd 3 - The Reluctant Writer 4 - A Conceptual Chessboard of Players 5 - The Self-Portrait as Personal Journal 6 - Artist and Patron 7 - Portraits of My Mother 8 - Robert Lepper 9 - A Songbird on the Wing 10 -The Word “Art” 11 - John Lilly 12 - Sisters 13 The Seamstress in the Band 14 - Susan Lilly 15 - Lynn
Book III - The Penumbra Is That All There is - The German Girl
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