Pynchon, the work of art

[Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling]

Susan Sontag, 1933-2004
by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/news/gilbert-rolfe/gilbert-rolfe1-4-05.asp
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I remember driving her back to New York from Princeton at some point
early in the 1970s on the day when she'd brought her son to look at
the place and arguing all the way about Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow,
which she insisted was "just" science fiction and for which I was
engaged at that time in making considerably larger claims for its
literary and cultural significance.
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-- 
AsB4,

Henry

On 5/1/08, Mark Kohut wrote:
> In the five abstract paintings in this exhibition, Gilbert-Rolfe revisits
> the grid and the vertically oriented canvas. The grid, which possessed a
> more architectural look when it first appeared in his paintings in the late
> 1970s and early 80s, becomes a mesmerizing force in new paintings such as
> Pynchon. Covering the entire canvas with a meticulously rendered rectangular
> grid, Gilbert-Rolfe uses the grid in Pynchon to suggest the depth of a
> screen and the temporal duration associated with music. An empathetic
> relationship with the viewer's body is encouraged by all of the paintings'
> verticality, which also shifts their compositional foci to the center, where
> a crevice runs down the center of each painting.