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Dark Prospects takes as its source materialissues of People, Time, Newsweek, U. S News and World Report. Charles Beronio retains the form of the magazine, but dismantles the medium''s visual language by blacking out all references to textual and visual references to corporate branding, time andlocation, as well as thefacesofthe magazines'' featured stars and advertising props. What''s left is astuttering, unforgivingsequence of detonated images and textual fragments;a skewed visual narrative of modern life.

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Five contemporary writers respond to Guston's work through imaginative fiction that proves his continual influence on today's creative cultureIn the short story collection Five Stories for Philip Guston, edited by Emmie Francis and Mark Godfrey, contemporary writers Christopher Alessandrini, Ben Okri, Thessaly La Force, Lou Stoppard and Audrey Wollen have created new fiction in conversation with Philip Guston (191380) and his painting. Christopher Alessandrini's queer, drily witty Maverick Road brings us to the contemporary environs of Guston's upstate haven. Ben Okri's Bloodymindedness is a stark portrait of violence and subversion. In Looking, Thessaly La Force writes of the lingering power of painting and reputation with a tribute to Guston's exhibition in Venice's Gallerie dell'Accademia. Lou Stoppard's courtroom crucible A Verdict is a study in Kafkaesque atmosphere. Audrey Wollen works deftly with a kind of Oulipo constraint exerciseGiotto is the

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