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A conversation with Philip Pearlstein.(Interview)

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| December 01, 2004 | Yezzi, David | COPYRIGHT 2004 Foundation for Cultural Review. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Editor's note: Earlier this fall, David Yezzi, The New Criterions poetry editor, interviewed the painter Philip Pearlstein at his apartment and studio in Manhattan's Garment District.

DAVID YEZZI: Where do you find the objects that you include in your paintings?

PHILIP PEARLSTEIN: Everywhere. This bench that you're sitting on is a primitive American, made by somebody probably in the 1930s, and obviously it took some skill, but it's all truly folk art. And it's documented. It may actually be much earlier. It's just a slab of wood resting on two cross pieces, but the back and sides are made up of these crudely turned rods. Some dealer had it for sale, and ...

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