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Article: Susan Weil at Sundaram Tagore.(New York)(artist gives visual interpretation to work of writer James Joyce)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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Susan Weil's 21-piece pictorial salute to James Joyce, accompanied by excerpts from his novels and related text, might well have fallen into illustration. Happily, the delightfully inventive, variously formatted paintings, drawings, collages and assemblages for "Eye's Ear for James Joyce" by this prolific New York artist (who shows more often in Sweden than here) do much more than that. Weil, whose career spans several decades, has already devoted almost two of them to this project, undaunted by the author's famously difficult late prose. Seen for the first time in this country, this witty, whimsical suite of works wears its erudition lightly, dexterously serving up a ...