By Philip Gourevitch October 8, 2015 Alexievich's books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper.
Alexievich, you see, is a reporter — she started out, in her native Belarus, writing for newspapers — and her books are woven from hundreds of interviews, in a hybrid form of reportage and oral history that has the quality of a documentary film on paper.
Capturing his spirit of hands-on experimentation, the show is almost entirely comprised of works on paper with one collaborative piece on plywood with his contemporary Jean Michel Basquiat, paper collage, video, and documentary photos.
The show features paintings, sculptures, mixed-media works, photographs, posters, works on paper, performance documentaries, videos and archival material by Laurie Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Louise Bourgeois, Judy Chicago, Audrey Flack, Alice Neel, Yoko Ono, Faith Ringgold, Miriam Shapiro, Joan Semmel, Nancy Spero and Faith Wilding, among others.
By the 26th, the Times had seen fit to run a correction to Kantor and Dowd's stories, announcing that the pieces "quoted incompletely from an interview [Sandberg] gave for 'Makers,' a new documentary on feminist history" but the paper's suggestion that Sandberg was an opportunistic one-percenter had already metastasized.
Drawing on interviews with researchers from both fields, on participatory observation in conferences and courses and on documentary analysis, this paper delineates differences and similarities, incompatibilities and blurred boundaries.
Interpretations of other artists sketched on paper are often lifeless copies made as records for documentary purposes.
He described a long-term project of his own, based on the Israeli documentary Paper Dolls.
