Arlice W. Davenport

Now well into his seventies, artist Norman Carr has vigorously reinvented himself as an abstract or non-objective painter.

What I call “pure painting” is a concept that has prevailed in American aesthetics since at least the 1940s. Most prominent among its...

The link between poetry and painting is well established, wrapped in the term “ekphrasis,” what I call the poem’s attempt to recreate...