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Robert Archambeau

Robert Archambeau is a poet and critic whose books include The Kafka Sutra, The Poet Resigns: Poetry in a Difficult Time, Inventions of a Barbarous Age: Poetry from Conceptualism to Rhyme Home and Variations, Laureates and Heretics, and others. He teaches at Lake Forest College.

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The Art of Not Communicating

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau August 28, 2021August 27, 2021

Caroline Kent’s installation practically vibrates with the energy of near-connection and near-signification.

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Theaster Gates Finds Community in Labor

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau July 17, 2021July 16, 2021

Gates joins ideas of labor, function, and property with aesthetic and art historical concerns.

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Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan on Their Surreal Soundscapes for Man Ray’s Silent Films

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau February 10, 2020February 13, 2020

Jarmusch and Logan’s SQÜRL — which they describe as an “enthusiastically marginal rock band” — weaves a trippy musical accompaniment to four silent films by Man Ray.

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The Eternal Glow of Tiffany’s Sacred Glass

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau February 1, 2020February 2, 2020

The term “stained glass” hardly gets at the vast variety of techniques and range of effects achieved by Tiffany and his peers. It can almost be called sculpted light.

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A Refreshing Vision of the Future

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau August 17, 2019August 16, 2019

Inka Essenhigh’s futuristic Uchronia is a pastoral place where what was once work is now play.

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Imagining the Western Other in 19th-Century Japanese Prints

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau August 3, 2019December 10, 2020

Images of Americans in these prints tell us a great deal about the local culture as it met the West. They tell us, specifically, about what many Japanese feared, and desired, from the encounter of cultures.

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A Vision of Mass Media Compromised and Revised

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau April 13, 2019April 12, 2019

A fan of chance and the lucky find, Robert Heinecken took every possible advantage of living in a media-saturated environment.

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Entering Art’s Unknown

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau February 23, 2019February 23, 2019

A sense of mystery pervades Enrico David’s art, in which a rich language of symbols suggests paths of possible interpretation.

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Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau February 16, 2019February 15, 2019

Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.

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Dreams of Beauty in Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau January 26, 2019January 25, 2019

The figures in The Floating World indicate the new direction Japanese art was about to take over the next two centuries, its growing emphasis on daily life.

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The Wild World of the Hairy Who

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau December 1, 2018December 1, 2018

The Chicago version of Pop Art, embodied in the work of the Hairy Who, is sweaty, nervous, sometimes giggly or goofy.

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The Politics of the Gallery Display

Avatar photo by Robert Archambeau November 10, 2018November 10, 2018

Gaylen Gerber’s Supports, on view at the Arts Club of Chicago, continues to raise questions about what happens to an object when we place it in a gallery.

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