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RED LOVES REX, ALAS.(books by Frederic Tuten)
Once upon a time--in 1971, if you must know--I read a slender book that seemed to me original, droll, and mysteriously precious. Wrapped in a posterish Roy Lichtenstein dust jacket, and set in narrow-measure boldface sans serif, Frederic Tuten's "The Adventures of Mao on the Long March" was a deadpan amalgam of quotation, parody, history, and fanciful fiction whose central image is that of Mao Tse-tung as a keen fan of Godard films and Minimal art, a Pateresque aesthete with a billion people on his hands. In an age when Mao posters adorned college dorms and Donald Barthelme ruled the nouvelle vague of fiction, the book made more sense than you might think; crediting a ...
- Frederic Tuten. The Green Hour.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Landon, Philip March 22, 2003 700+ words
...2002. 265 pp. $24.95. Frederic Tuten has already given us an ultra...tribute to an iconic artist (Van Gogh's Bad Cafe, 1997)--an...necessity of art. A novel by Frederic Tuten is always an event and a new...
- Cafe society.(Frederic Tuten novel revives tradition of Americans abroad)
- Magazine article from: WWD West, Kevin September 27, 2002 700+ words
...easy to forget how foreign Europe used to be. "When I was a kid, I wanted to be a painter," recalls New York novelist Frederic Tuten. "I wanted to go to cafes and talk about philosophy. I thought Europe was elegant, beautiful and noble. Part of me...
- Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: The Antioch Review Taylor, John (English pop musician) September 22, 1997 700+ words
Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story by Frederic Tuten. William Morrow, 163 pp., $20.00...compelling protagonist, none other than Vincent Van Gogh. The simple plot is fantastical. Van Gogh's lover, Ursula - "her hair a tangled...
- Van Gogh's Bad Cafe: A Love Story.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Contemporary Fiction Landon, Philip September 22, 1997 700+ words
Frederic Tuten. William Morrow, 1997...of the Dutch painter in Frederic Tuten's fourth novel. The...by historical reality, Van Gogh's Bad Cafe explores...or, in the case of Van Gogh, both). The impressionist...
- Van Gogh was father to us all: Martin Bailey visits two major Van Gogh...
- Magazine article from: Apollo Bailey, Martin March 1, 2007 700+ words
Vincent van Gogh and Expressionism is the first exhibition...the Germanic artists took elements from Van Gogh's motifs and techniques, adapting them...slavishly copying. In the hang at the Van Gogh Museum, where the exhibition opened...
- Van Gogh's Van Goghs.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Naves, Mario December 1, 1998 700+ words
The short and tragic life of Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) forms the basis of one of...That this was the actual tale of Vincent van Gogh should not stop us from being leery of...story can generate. And in the case of van Gogh, the haze is dense. He was, after all...
- Van Gogh's bedroom.(All Levels: Looking and Learning)
- Magazine article from: School Arts Kindseth, Anne September 1, 2005 700+ words
About the Artist Vincent van Gogh was born in Holland in 1853, the son...Georges Seurat and Paul Signac). Van Gogh's work from this time reveals his...complementary colors. By late 1887, van Gogh had grown tired of the strain of city...
- Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Edwards, Cliff February 28, 2001 700+ words
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art...the wonderful display of four versions of van Gogh's Cradle-Rocker painting. The almost...Silverman notes Judy Sund's key work on van Gogh's use of literature, there is no reference...
