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Article: Strange fruit.
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- New Criterion
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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As this issue goes to press, it is announced that a remarkable discovery has been made in the Swabian Mountains along the Upper Danube: ancient figurative art, the product of Late Stone Age artists living 30,000 years ago, has been uncovered in a cave. Yet equally remarkable, and perhaps less reported, have been the concurrent exhumations at the site: the original exhibition catalogue and press kit; fliers on the speaking series and tour schedule; a note of thanks from the curator; a graduate student dissertation titled "The Cave as Abject Symbol in Contemporary Figurative Art" (unpublished); and a dog-eared copy of The New Yorker, found in the lavatory, from the Shawn ...