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Sunday, February 11, 2007

A Great One by Peter Schjeldahl

posted by on February 11 at 9:13 AM

The refusal to numb his subject with deference, the relevant self-revelation, the last line. All reasons to read.

Here’s a sample from The New Yorker critic’s latest, on Tintoretto:

But he and his populous workshop also perpetrated some of the grimmest daubs—murky and slack—that you ever rushed past with a shudder. I realized, too late, that my puzzlement was a warning. Now I feel that I have acquired a brilliant, neurotic, exhausting friend who enjoins me to undertake on his behalf campaigns that he bungled when their conduct was up to him.

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