Perseus Rescuing Andromeda (detail) — Piero di Cosimo

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Misgivings (Herman Melville/Antonio Frasconi)

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From On the Slain Collegians: Selections from the poems of Herman Melville. Edited, and with woodcuts by Antonio Frasconi. Noonday Press, 1971.

Rothko Forgery

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Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of…recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it…

The Recognitions, William Gaddis