STEFANIA LEVI

(artist's statements)

Narrative Art - Blisters - Customs Inspection - Food - Color (pdf)

ALLEN SCHILL

(artist's statements)

View Camera Still Life - The Persistence of Memory (pdf)

Anthology and Rhythm, Surfaces and Textures (pdf)

Spectra - analytical abstraction and the role of chance (pdf)

Digital Abstraction - working with pixel patterns (pdf)

Scanned Images - the scanner as an imaging tool for artists (pdf)

Pinhole and Toy Camera Photos (views from the Aleph) (pdf)

Panoramic Assemblages (multi-paneled photographs) (pdf)

Family of Man Assemblages (a homage to humanity) (pdf)

Photograms and Experimental Images (pdf)

Paper Pulp and Acrylic Pieces (methods and inspiration) (pdf)

Photographic Mandalas (brief production notes) (pdf)

Mandalas (a brief statement) (pdf)

Mandalas (a comprehensive statement) (pdf)

Nicholas Roerich Museum Exhibit (a general statement) (pdf)

(appreciations)

Irving Penn Appreciation - an ex-assistant pays homage (pdf)

Frederick S. Schwartz, G.S.'73 - remembering a life (pdf, 101K)

Lord Buckley - thoughts on the Immaculately Hip Messiah (pdf, 110K)

(letters and essays on art and literature)

Academic-realist painter Jacob Collins and the controversy over realism in art, from Columbia Magazine (pdf)

Andy Warhol - an experience working with the Factory, and a revisionist view of a self-made icon, inspired by Richard Dorment's "What Is an Andy Warhol?", from the New York Review of Books (pdf)

Marcel Proust - substance abuse and the creative process (pdf, 75K)

Thomas Pynchon's Science - a call for a scientific Baedeker (pdf)

(polemics on public affairs)

Population Growth - Bill McKibben's exchanges with Paul and Jane Ehrlich and Allen Schill, from the New York Review of Books (pdf)

Global Warming - a letter to the New York Review of Books (pdf)

Global Warming - a letter to GW skeptics (and global heaters), for Columbia Magazine (pdf)

Columbia, Spring 1968 - a crucible of ideas, 40 years later (pdf, 116K)

Arms Control and Terrorism - a plea to curtail arms dealing and to control the instruments and materials of war and terror (pdf)

Public Health Care - an expatriate's view of the situation in the US, from Italy, a relatively normal country with a good public health program (pdf)

Iraq Warning for G.W. Bush (Jan. 2003) - words wasted on the unwise (pdf)

(miscellany)

Certain Distant Suns - a mystical fragment on RUACH-TV (pdf)

Ostenwald, Germany - a private shame in a small town (pdf, 58K)

Rogues' Gallery - a few accounts of scumbaggery (pdf)