The Slow Work of Unlearning
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In this issue, Matt Prater celebrates the music of escape in three poems beginning with “The Slow Work of Unlearning.”
Robert Sachs recounts the story of a boy named Evelyn who knew how to make the dogs howl in “A Delicious Silence.”
And Jay Hodges reveals the intimate world of caring for someone with severe memory loss in a series of linked essays beginning with “Our Own Country.”
The images in this issue are from Lajos Tihanyi, a self-taught artist who combined the fragmentation of Analytical Cubism and the psychological intensity of Expressionism in his portraits.
Three painting by Lajos Tihanyi.
The Critic, Self portrait, and Woman in Red, 1916-1918.
A self-taught artist, Tihanyi combined the fragmentation of Analytical Cubism and the psychological intensity of Expressionism in his portraits. The Critic figure has been identified as a particular individual—Andor Halasi, a literary critic Tihanyi knew well—yet the sitter’s sharply rendered features almost suggest a physical type for the profession, with a high, intellectual forehead, alert eyes, long nose, and pinched mouth. From the collections of the Brooklyn Museum.
