Example sentences for: macgregor

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  • But think of Darger in the context either of children's books and cartoons (anything from Tom & Jerry to the terrifyingly brutal but also extremely popular German children's book Strumpelpeter ) or of contemporary art (Maggie Robbins' 1989 "Barbie Fetish," for instance--a naked Barbie doll stuck all over with little nails), and it's MacGregor who begins to look like the outsider.

  • "Clearly," MacGregor wrote in a 1992 exhibition catalog, "Darger was not free."

  • It's ironic, too, that critics such as MacGregor persist in seeing Darger as an unself-conscious obsessive, unable to separate his life from his created fantasy world, since in fact Darger's work is full of precisely the sort of self-referentiality that in a contemporary insider artist would be read as a rather ordinary example of postmodern detachment.

  • MacGregor's supporters said she had landed a blow for gender equality.

  • Chief culprit in Darger's case is one John MacGregor, an art historian to whom Darger's former landlord, now his executor, has bequeathed semi-exclusive access to some of the Darger material, and who is thus the main disseminator of Darger criticism.


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