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Richard Buckner: Dents and Shells

Sylvie Simmons, The Guardian, 14 January 2005

THERE ARE THREE kinds of American folk artist: those who sit, contented, on a back porch contemplating America's landscape and ways; those for whom its landscape and ways are something to stand against or move boldly through; and those whose America is a shadowy, impressionistic place that moves inside of them.

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