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Barbara Rosenthal ARTICLES, REVIEWS and BIBLIOGRAPHY: FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY of over 300 publications 1962-2016 about BARBARA ROSENTHAL EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES 1982-2017
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“an adventure in language, as well as an entertaining “Siddhartha-type” read…[with] both pleasant and disturbing surprises…likely to touch a responsive chord…. The book is a kaleidoscope of references to obscure and eclectic subjects…[that are] delightful to experience…. I, for one, thank Joseph Quintela for publishing “Wish For Amnesia,” and I believe many other readers will, too.”
"Pynchonesque, sci-fi gospel parable!”
“The novel Wish for Amnesia is fast-paced, surprising, heart-wrenching and beautiful. It touches the very core of the reader’s soul, [and] will live up to its expectations of…unusual and amazing tidings…[that] weave intrigues for readers…. Barbara Rosenthal’s achievement as author…is exemplary. [She] elevates storytelling to a high note.…[in which] historical moments…beautifully intertwine in a [fictional] storyline [that] will haunt readers for a long time. The tale stands out in its imagery and its tight and gripping plot…. The incredible flow of the novel is not compromised even once! She builds an engrossing journey for each of the six characters and judiciously sees them through a befitting conclusion. Her photographs that accompany each chapter are a boost…. Wish for Amnesia…merits five stars and a read from every book lover around the world.”
“Rosenthal enjoys toying with the narrative form. A welter of minute real-world detail confines characters and reader inside a moving prison of fate. [Her] characters come of age, start a family, harbor messianic visions, travel, [drive], attend a party, keep journals…[during] points of high physical drama…. The book is making an impact where it counts….”
“Barbara Rosenthal re-imagines the art of fiction between new modes of imagination and reality. She is the closest thing we have to a Wallace Stevens of novelistic fiction. Rosenthal heals this world by imagining other ones.” With unflinching humor, she tells it like she lives it.” "An authority born of constant introspection characterizes her photographic meditations...and...[she] embraces chaos and uncertainty with a persistent grip upon the messy ephemerality of experience....She ceaselessly shapes and reshapes what may finally be understood as her approaches to a Platonic ideal that lies behind the shifting forms and possibilities of her repeated motifs and variations upon themes....She renders personal adventure on a large and public scale in projects...which transgress the conventional limits of he own (and others') privacy." --Ellen Handy, Photography Quarterly "...an attempt to come to terms with unbearable realities..." --John Russell, The New York Times "...quite moving..." -- Charles Hagen, Reviews Editor, Artforum "Rosenthal uses photographs in a dreamlike, associative way...." -- Shelley Rice, Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology "Her underlying insistence on simplicity create[s] an intimate and most effective directness." -- Laura C. Lieberman, Afterimage "Rosenthal's photographs...tell the story, not just literally, but metaphorically as well." -- Robert C. Morgan, Cover "[These] image-text inquiries...feed my hope that...content will re-emerge in contemporary photography...." -- A.D. Coleman, The Center Quarterly of Photography "Rosenthal's work tends to be personal, if not autobiographical, each product reflecting her mentality at the time it was made. [A] truly original artist..."-- Richard Kostelanetz, Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes "...haunting [work]...that is shared...on a very intimate basis. A one-to-one experience which will shift with the emotional stance and psychological situation of the reader." -- Shelley Rice, The Franklin Furnace Flue "...a...thinking artist." -- Judith Hoffberg, Umbrella "A sophisticated textbook for searching artists...." -- A.R. Parker, Photo-Communique "Her purpose seems to be to combine mass culture and interior monologue, making commentary only by juxtaposition and presentation." -- Ellen Handy, Arts Magazine "Cretean Bull Dancers: Five Women (Linda Montano, Barbara Rosenthal, Irene Siegel, Carolee Schneemann, Terry Kennedy)...The subject is breaking out." -- George Myers, Jr. Introduction to Modern Times "Rosenthal's work is incessantly personal, even naked, with an emphasis on language realized through stories, puns, songs, names and confessions." -- Manohla Dargis, The Village Voice "Evocative, dreamlike visions..." -- Shelley Rice, The Franklin Furnace Flue "[A]ll sorts of interesting other meanings enter into [her] narrative of days." -- Buzz Spector "A well-spring for the intellect and the emotions..." -- Don Russell, WPA "The paradox is to share the ultimately private....The common ground is rocky, treacherous even, but there exists the possibility of identification." -- George Myers, Jr., Introduction to Modern Times "I love the book Sensations, am putting it alongside John Cage's and Alison Knowles' and Philip Corner's on my shelf of what's next in art, what's now in good American minds...." -- Carol Berge "Her very "lack of style" is ideal...." -- Deirdre Boyle, Sightlines "Barbara Rosenthal exhibits a very funny take on life, yet it is supremely sardonic. Crisis, fragility, transcendence, divinity, personality, tormented existence, inner emotional states, intellectual purpose, universal connection, and private experience within a historical period are her palette: No matter what her medium, she clearly produces Existential Art."-- Bill Creston
FULL BIBLIOGRAPHY of over 300 publications containing material by and about Barbara Rosenthal 1962-2016:
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