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Richard Hogan at Linda Durham. (New York).(oil painting)

From: Art in America  |  Date: 3/1/2003  |  Author: Goodman, Jonathan

The oil paintings of Richard Hogan suggest a kind of primitive palimpsest of delicate, undulating white lines and shadows. It is hardly surprising that Hogan is interested in paleolithic and neolithic art, although, as William Peterson points out in an insightful catalogue essay, Hogan's inquiry into the basic impulse of drawing is not so much a nostalgia for the "primitive" as it is a search for a vocabulary that will read as independent or autonomous, and not as "abstracted." In ...

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