Example sentences for: benfey

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  • (Click here to read Christopher Benfey's review in Slate .)

  • By Christopher Benfey

  • Benfey is Slate 's art critic.

  • The forays into science fiction are said to have "the unfortunate effect of liberating all [Vidal's] worst artistic impulses" (James Bowman, the Wall Street Journal ). Vidal does win praise for caustic portrayals of dead presidents--with all the "freaks and foibles"--of the sort he has brought to his other historical fiction (Christopher Benfey, the New York Times Book Review ).

  • Critics declare Bonnard's landscapes, nudes, and self-portraits more than dated Impressionism, deeming them "[s]ome of the most extraordinary paintings of his quickly ending century" (Christopher Benfey, Slate ). They say that his dreamlike images show a "Proustian" concern with the mechanics of perception and that his later nudes are "tinged with necrophilia" (Francine Prose, the Wall Street Journal ). (MoMA's site serves up a slew of paintings.)


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