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Frank Sidebolt

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THE DEAD CAN'T PAINT!!!

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Non-verbal thought?

There are philosophers who say that we cannot think beyond our language.  This implies that thinking and language are essentially one.  This also implies that other modes of thought cannot r...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:35:00 GMT

The Other Day

I want to write a quick note to you about where I am in my art.  I am working towards an art that resists comment on the world.  It is about the world, like a painting of a lawn is about a l...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:12:00 GMT

Surreality

I was cruising around MySpace today, putting names of good poets into the search engine.  I found the MySpace poetry circuit. There is a circuit for everything on MySpace.  There are...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Dec 2007 10:20:00 GMT

The Politics that Exists in Most Poems: Three kinds of political poem and a fourth kind

About politics in poetry, it occurs to me that a political poem will fall into one of three camps.  I could be wrong.  The first is political in subject or content.  This is the obv...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:41:00 GMT

Sidebolt versus Hughes

Tonight, on WGN radio, on the Milt Rosenberg show, Frank Sidebolt, i.e. me, engaged the venerated art critic, Robert Hughes, in brief but heated debate about the role of the art critic.  It was, ...
Posted by on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 10:45:00 GMT

Infidel Group, interview with Powell and Tosch

One had thought that cardboard and trash, and junk from the curb, had been dispensed and tossed out, put where they belong, in the garbage can, along with Abstract Expressionism, the drunk father of s...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 19:51:00 GMT