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The austere installation of Chuck Close's big portraits at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City begins where any artist wants the narrative of his career to begin: with fully achieved art.
The effect: Sports news for Attention Deficit Disorder victims: lots of bite-sized items on very busy pages, lots of photo portraits of sports stars, none of SI 's in-depth features.
On the cover and inside: portraits of "the 65 leaders who shape and rule the world today."
Less amusing, but more typical, is an 1983 essay by James Atlas in The Atlantic Monthly , in which he offers up the spectacle of himself cringing at the feet of the New York intellectuals who helped him with his biography of poet Delmore Schwartz--and equally nasty portraits of the intellectuals themselves.
The portraits, in which he used calm observation and academic skill to depict external reality while representing the interior through distortion and paper-tearing physical force, are more troubling than many of the interestingly science-fictional renderings of his visions, for example.
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