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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

James Gibbons

James Gibbons is an associate editor at the Library of America and a frequent contributor to Bookforum.

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The City as Seen From a Hi-Rise Window

by James Gibbons March 13, 2021March 12, 2021

Ed Roberson’s poems express a troubled awareness of the earth’s exhaustion.

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Giorgio de Chirico’s Dream-like Verse

by James Gibbons November 23, 2019November 22, 2019

These poems channel the artist’s restlessness and longings into uncanny, animated visions.

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Dick Higgins: Avant Garde Provocateur and Philosopher

by James Gibbons December 22, 2018December 21, 2018

Higgins was a participant observer of outrageous innovations in art, music, poetry, performance, and independent publishing for decades beginning in the 1960s.

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Family, Landscape, and Race in Sally Mann’s Photographs

by James Gibbons March 10, 2018March 9, 2018

Mann’s historical and social explorations are anchored in her embrace of her identity as a Southerner.

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When Artists Move from the Margins to the Center

by James Gibbons February 10, 2018February 22, 2018

The most powerful outsider artworks in Outliers and American Vanguard Art at the National Gallery of Art evoke ideals about all artists: the belief, for example, that they are distinct from non-artists.

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The Violent Forms of Alexander Calder And Cady Noland

by James Gibbons December 16, 2017December 15, 2017

The dialogue among four works — two by each artist — ​suggests​ a dissonant string quartet​ ​as each ​piece asserts its distinctive timbre and range.

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Mark Bradford’s Gettysburg Address

by James Gibbons November 18, 2017November 17, 2017

Bradford’s installation at the Hirshhorn Museum takes as its subject the ways we think, and ultimately don’t think, about history.

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Changes on the Land: 19th-Century American Photography East of the Mississippi

by James Gibbons June 10, 2017June 9, 2017

East of the Mississippi highlights how early photographic efforts homed in on Americans’ leisure pursuits, particularly travel to popular getaway spots such as Niagara Falls and New England’s White Mountains.

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Not Settled: An Interview with Adam Zagajewski

by James Gibbons April 15, 2017April 14, 2017

Zagajewski consistently writes with lightness, wit, and a dry sense of irony that never shades into cynicism or self-satisfaction.

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Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”

by James Gibbons December 10, 2016December 9, 2016

At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.

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Sound of Silence: Michael Palmer’s ‘The Laughter of the Sphinx’

by James Gibbons November 12, 2016November 15, 2016

Michael Palmer’s trust in the generative power that emerges out of silence for poetry runs counter to a deep strain of pessimism throughout The Laughter of the Sphinx.

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Only Abandoned: The Poetry of Marcel Broodthaers

by James Gibbons March 19, 2016March 31, 2016

Midway through the retrospective of Belgian artist Marcel Broodthaers currently at the Museum of Modern Art, the visitor comes across the witty short film La Pluie (Projet pour un texte) [The Rain (Project for a text), 1969].

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