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The Personal Review: January 2014
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Friday, January 24, 2014. Henri Michaux: "Seize the Landscape". Surrealist poet Henri Michaux. My translation of “Empoigner le paysage” from Henri Michaux's Au Pays de la magie. The French title of this untitled passage was taken from the description of it used in the "Table des. Matieres" of the French edition of Ailleurs. I quote the prose poem in my upcoming book Alternative Futures: Avant-garde Travels in the Orient. Il se forme, disent-ils, en...
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The Personal Review: February 2014
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Friday, February 28, 2014. Jean Baudrillard on Architecture. My translation of Jean Baudrillard's Architecture: Truth or Radicalism? Semiotext(e): Los Angeles, 2014. One of the Semiotext(e) editions on display at the Whitney Biennial, 2014, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 7 - May 24, 2014. Beaubourg. What does Beaubourg mean? It means circularity, storage, flux, whether of individuals, objects or signs. You can interpret them both lite...
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The Personal Review: American Voices: Zora Neale Hurston
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Monday, May 18, 2015. American Voices: Zora Neale Hurston. Eyes Were Watching God. Jody, dat wuz uh mighty fine thing fuh you tuh do. 8217;Tain’t everybody would have thought of it, ’cause it ain’t no everyday thought. Freein’ dat mule makes uh mighty big man outa you. Something like George Washington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule, so he freed de Negroes. You got uh town, so you freed a mule. On overhearing hi...
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The Personal Review: Cubist Painting of Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Cubist Painting of Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger. Review of “Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection”. At The Metropolitan Museum, October 20, 2014 – February 16, 2015. The Concupiscence of Cubism. Fernand Leger, "The Typographer". As The New York Times. In short, Cubism’s success still depends on an assumption of illusionism, albeit an illusionism that is ingeniously curtailed at virtually every turn, resulting...
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The Personal Review: Jean Baudrillard on Architecture
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Friday, February 28, 2014. Jean Baudrillard on Architecture. My translation of Jean Baudrillard's Architecture: Truth or Radicalism? Semiotext(e): Los Angeles, 2014. One of the Semiotext(e) editions on display at the Whitney Biennial, 2014, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, March 7 - May 24, 2014. Beaubourg. What does Beaubourg mean? It means circularity, storage, flux, whether of individuals, objects or signs. You can interpret them both lite...
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The Personal Review: November 2011
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Tuesday, November 8, 2011. Ellen Sussman, "French Lessons". I once taught English in Paris, so when I learned a novel set in Paris had been published, I became curious. After reading a hundred pages of Ellen Sussman’s French Lessons. Ballantine, 2011), I realized I had stumbled across a genre of literature I did not understand. It’s a mystery to me why some people read only romances, or literature written with one gender in mind. In Sussman’s...
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The Personal Review: May 2012
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Tuesday, May 1, 2012. Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi 1707-1857. The Asia Society Museum, February 7 – May 6, 2012. MUGHAL MINIATURES AND ENGLISH ENLARGEMENTS. Embedded within The Asia Society website is another site for the “Princes and Painters” exhibition of miniatures and other artifacts of the late Mughal dynasty. As the various scholars, curators, museum spokeswomen and spokesmen seem at pains to inform us (including guest curator Willia...
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The Personal Review: May 2015
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Monday, May 18, 2015. American Voices: Zora Neale Hurston. Eyes Were Watching God. Jody, dat wuz uh mighty fine thing fuh you tuh do. 8217;Tain’t everybody would have thought of it, ’cause it ain’t no everyday thought. Freein’ dat mule makes uh mighty big man outa you. Something like George Washington and Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln, he had de whole United States tuh rule, so he freed de Negroes. You got uh town, so you freed a mule. On overhearing hi...
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The Personal Review: November 2012
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Friday, November 2, 2012. A sample essay for my undergraduate course, "American Voices.". He bent over the Indian woman. She was quiet now and her eyes were closed. She looked very pale. She did not know what had become of the baby or anything. 8220;I’ll be back in the morning,” the doctor said, standing up. “The nurse should be here from St. Ignace by noon and she’ll bring everything we need.”. At different stages of his life. As in many of Heming...
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The Personal Review: July 2011
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Reviews, essays and translations by David LeHardy Sweet. Monday, July 4, 2011. Gide, Cocteau, Flaubert and Nerval in Egypt. Orientalist Divagations: Four French Authors in Egypt.". By David LeHardy Sweet. Studies in Travel Writing. Routledge/Taylor and Francis) 14.2 (June 2010): 197-213. Http:/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13645141003747272. Http:/ www.studiesintravelwriting.com/issues.php? Links to this post. Sunday, July 3, 2011. Alex Garland, "The Beach"; Michel Houellebecq, "Plateforme". AI at...