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Schnell! Schnell! Silly Grizzly Man!!!
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— 15 Feb 2006 Pete Baran Comment

Grizzly Man is the best serious film I have seen for two years (maybe longer). Why? Because it works on so many levels:
1) A nature film. There is something about Timothy Treadwell’s hours and hours of wildlife footage which is beguiling. When […]

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Politcs and Abstraction
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— 15 Feb 2006 Anthony Easton Comment

Yek/Sue Williams
The question about how political abstraction can be, esp. in relations to painting keeps popping up, an unsolvable corundum in western art history, related to what subject the viewer is extracting. Two relatively recent examples poi[…]

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