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Strong notices for the British novelist and playwright's latest, a story that "engagingly combines a comedy of manners with elements of farce and art-historical detective story" (Matt Seaton, the New York Times ). The main character, a philosophy professor, stumbles on what he believes to be a lost Bruegel painting and becomes obsessed with both obtaining it and determining whether it is genuine.
There is much more that could be analyzed to place Lichtenstein in an art-historical framework, but perhaps one should just enjoy the power of the concrete image, simplified to its high-tone essentials and projected at large visual angle onto our excitable retinas.
It seems to me absurd to try and read an image like The Holy Virgin Mary 1996 in purely formal terms, because it would be to apply aesthetic criteria and art-historical comparisons to a work that draws its power primarily from iconoclasm and irreverence.