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Editor's note: In Chicago this fall, the poet Mark Strand interviewed the figurative painter William Bailey about the genesis and direction of his art.
MARK STRAND: What was the art like in the late sixties and seventies when you were first showing in New York?
WILLIAM BAILEY: Many different things were happening--there was pop art, conceptual art, and minimal art, photo realism had started out, and there was the beginning of some recognition of straight figurative painting--that is, painting that isn't based on photography, but is based either on direct observation or memory. Around that time, in the late sixties, Gabriel Laderman wrote an article ...