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If we accept the view of de Hooch advanced by the Hartford show and catalog, as a propagandist for Dutch family values, it's hard to explain the peculiar hold that his paintings have, or ought to have, on us.
Some downright peculiar results followed from this inference.
"In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."
Kusama's 1964 affair with Joseph Cornell (documented in Utopia Parkway , Deborah Solomon's recent biography of Cornell) has a peculiar aptness: The man terrified of women--who enclosed movie goddesses and ballerinas in little fantasy boxes and nicknamed Kusama "You-you-I"--meets the woman scared of men.
And it took a project of rare slickness and vacuity to help him blot out all traces of his hitherto peculiar but attractive personality.