Article: Mom and pop modernism. (exhibit of books published by the Gaberbocchus Press, La Boetie Gallery, New York, New York)

Charm is a quality not highly valued in the vanguard milieu nowadays. But "The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press--An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979," a recent show of over 100 books and works on paper at La Boetie Gallery, reminded us that civility and wit were once major components of the modernist sensibility--weapons of deceptive sweetness in the bohemian assault on social propriety and stultifying artistic convention. Less intentionally, the exhibition also served as a caution regarding the limitations of any coterie, especially one that adopts intellectual coziness as its prime oppositional strategy.

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