A series of conversations between Faye Hirsch & Janice Krasnow at various tavern bars in New York City.

A series of conversations between Faye Hirsch & Janice Krasnow at various tavern bars in New York City. Printed Matter/29 pp./price unavailable (sb) This humbly-printed chapbook-like plan is related to artist Krasnow's "Text Portrait" series in which she created conceptual portraits of individuals, at their petition for using words and phrases. This work is comprised of conversations in house of entertainment bars between Krasnow and art critic, writer and Art onward Paper editor Hirsch that range from their choices in gimlets to the "human look" of lobster and also includes passing respects to the New York City art representation Replace with fragmented sentences and stream of consciousness anecdotes steady to live conversation, the dialogue is from turns engaging and trite, ridiculously banal now easily accessible to readers. Although it is claimed that the draw creates a "portrait" of brace people through language, the theatrical sentence is only sporadically revelatory and is augmented with a handful of black and whit e photographs of the conversants.

Chris George is an MFA scholar at Visual Studies Workshop.



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