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| Lucebert (Lubertus Jacobus Swaanswijk) People Crossing the Border 1988 oil on canvas NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Corneille (Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo) 1948 1988 lithograph NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Kenneth Aptekar Herald 1988 oil on copper San Jose Museum of Art, California |
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| Ed Blackburn Jesus and the Money-Changers 1988 oil on canvas Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Louise Bourgeois Cove 1988 bronze Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas |
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| Roger Brown California Hillside 1988 oil on canvas New Orleans Museum of Art |
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| Carole Feuerman Brooke with Beach Ball 1988 plaster NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida |
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| Nan Goldin Matt and Lewis in the Tub Kissing, Cambridge 1988 C-print Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
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| Fer Hakkaart Golden Fleece 1988 oil on canvas Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden |
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| Scott Heiser Ringling Brothers Circus, New York 1988 gelatin silver print Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington |
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| Jeff Koons Christ and the Lamb 1988 giltwood and mirror Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Joni Mabe The Official Elvis Prayer Rug 1988 lithograph Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Gorham Seafood Servers 1988 gelatin silver print Dallas Museum of Art |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Neck 1988 gelatin silver print Art Institute of Chicago |
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| Robert Mapplethorpe Tulip 1988 dye imbibition print Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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| Scott Miller Untitled 1988 oil on canvas Akron Art Museum, Ohio |
Cattivo Tempo
Sirocco brings the minor devils:
A slamming of doors
A slamming of doors
At four in the morning
Announces they are back,
Grown insolent and fat
On cheesy literature
And corny dramas,
Nibbar, demon
Of ga-ga and bêtise,
Tubervillus, demon
Of gossip and spite.
Nibbar to the writing room
Plausibly to whisper
The nearly fine,
The almost true;
The almost true;
Beware of him, poet,
Lest, reading over
Your shoulder, he find
What makes him glad,
The manner arch,
The meaning blurred,
The poem bad.
Tubervillus to the dining-room
Intently to listen,
Waiting his cue;
Beware of him, friends,
Lest the talk at his prompting
Take the wrong turning,
The unbated tongue
In mischief blurt
The half-home-truth,
The fun turn ugly,
The jokes hurt.
Do not underrate them; merely
To tear up the poem,
To shut the mouth
Will defeat neither:
To have got you alone
Self-confined to your bedroom
Manufacturing there
From lewdness or self-care
Some whining unmanaged
Imp of your own,
That too is their triumph.
The proper riposte is to bore them;
To scurry the dull pen
Through dull correspondence,
To wag the sharp tongue
In pigeon Italian,
Asking the socialist
Barber to guess
Or the monarchist fisherman to tell
When the wind will change,
Outwitting hell
With human obviousness.
– W.H. Auden (1949)