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What is most important about the concept of rascuache is that it captures a propensity or an aesthetic, according to Ybarra-Frausto, to persevere and make whatever one possesses, or has at hand, work well together.
In a "Talk of the Town" item, Ron Reagan Jr. praises Dutch . "For all its fictive excursions," Edmund Morris' biography captures "the contradictory man" he calls dad.
A few defend Morris: His unorthodox technique captures Reagan's contradictions and makes for "a very strange, very interesting, very exasperating book, full to bursting of both lies and honesty" that calls to mind some of fiction's most masterful unreliable narrators, such as "the madness of Nabokov's Charles Kinbote" (Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ). Christopher Lehmann-Haupt writes a solidly positive review: "I can think of few conventional political biographies that bring their subjects' pasts so richly alive" (the New York Times ). But the Times ' other reviewer voices the conventional wisdom, calling it "a bizarre, irresponsible and monstrously self-absorbed book" (Michiko Kakutani).
Reminiscent of the room-filling iron spiders cast by Louise Bourgeois, it conveys the feeling of being trapped in a philosophical cage--and in so doing perfectly captures the spirit of the exhibition as whole.
He captures the texture of light and the currents of air.