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Barry Schwabsky

Barry Schwabsky is art critic for The Nation and co-editor of international reviews for Artforum. His recent books include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2016) and a collection of poetry, Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square Editions, 2015). Imminently forthcoming is a new book of essays, Heretics of Language (Black Square Editions, 2017).

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Putting the Art Back in Art History

by Barry Schwabsky November 9, 2019November 8, 2019

Christopher S. Wood’s A History of Art History will be eye-opening for anyone who cares about art.

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Why Matisse Thought “A Picture Should Always Be Decorative”

by Barry Schwabsky June 9, 2019June 6, 2019

For Matisse, decoration was never a secondary matter.

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Constructing the Language We Breathe

by Barry Schwabsky May 12, 2019May 10, 2019

For half a century, Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop have been (despite some serious competition) the most reliable conduit for poetry traveling from French and German into English.

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A Poet Invents Her Voice

by Barry Schwabsky January 4, 2019January 4, 2019

Ursula Andkjær Olsen’s Third-Millennium Heart is a beautiful monster of a book coming at you straight, with no padding of preface or foreword to warn you what you might be in for.

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The Hard-to-Find Chapbooks of Geoffrey Young

by Barry Schwabsky November 18, 2018November 16, 2018

Young is one of those poets, it seems, who prefers to do it all himself, how and when he feels like it.

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Put On Sunglasses and Write a Poem

by Barry Schwabsky September 8, 2018September 7, 2018

Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.

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On Impious Poetry and Poetic Faith

by Barry Schwabsky December 10, 2017December 8, 2017

Navid Kermani puts his finger on what’s divisive in poetry and culture.

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Vivian Maier, the Photographer Who Wanted to Go Unobserved

by Barry Schwabsky October 1, 2017October 17, 2017

Maier didn’t want people to know where she lived, and often lied about her personal history.

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The Earth as a Dump and Refuge

by Barry Schwabsky August 27, 2017August 25, 2017

The Astropastorals, a new collection of poetry by Douglas Crase, brings together two decades of material in 18 pages.

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How Not to Look at Pictures

by Barry Schwabsky June 11, 2017June 9, 2017

Robert Walser was likely to find in images a reason to look into his own fervent imagination.

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A Study of Art Galleries Reveals Their Aesthetic of Transcendental Experience

by Barry Schwabsky May 27, 2017May 26, 2017

David Carrier’s The Contemporary Art Gallery is a small but well-stocked treasury of first-hand observations by someone who’s spent a lot of time in art galleries, but who has retained enough critical distance to see them with a certain objectivity.

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A Painter Speaks, so that His Paintings Can Remain Silent 

by Barry Schwabsky April 23, 2017April 21, 2017

When René Magritte wrote “This is not a pipe,” he wasn’t negating the pipe so much as he was negating the language with which we attempt to grasp it.

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