I couldn't help notice the inaccurate spelling of the names Damien
Hirst and Emily Dickinson, the inaccuracy of calling Jasper Johns a
contemporary artist, and the lack of context in using these artists
for comparison.
To join William in reading between the lines of the Sendak interview -- we
might notice that the names he places into the iconic artist club are all
writers or composers. (Mozart, Melville, Dickenson etc)
I.e. -- Sendak is not giving ground to any visual artists -- and I suspect
that he feels (as I do) that his memorable, poignant, narrative vision is a
greater achievement than the work of contemporary iconic visual artists like
Jasper Johns and Chuck Close. (and way-way-way greater than the billionaire
joke artists like Damien Hurst)
Either way -- only the obsessive mind of Cheerskep would find him nourishing
the Platonic forms of "illustrator" or "artist".
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