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In Praise of Lance Esplund

May 19, 2009 by Marion Maneker

Talent doesn’t show in the pyrotechnics or the hammy grabs for attention. In writing, real talent comes in the byways of a story or a review. Here Lance Esplund is talking about Duane Hanson. He’s trying to set up a comment on the sculptor’s work but in the process he mints a valuable aphorism about art:

When an artwork closes down too tightly on its subject — when it fixates on mimicry at the expense of metaphor — it brings the relationship between object and viewer to a standstill.

A Virtuoso with Line (Wall Street Journal)

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