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Don Van Vliet

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Paintings of Don Van Vliet

Don Van Vliet

Don Van Vliet, more widely known by his pseudonym Captain Beefheart, retired from music in 1982 and devoted his life to painting. Asked why he didn't go to his own openings, he said "If I'm somewhere else, I'd rather be ...
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Timber, Released and Unreleased
Don Van Vliet
I ran into Jenny Wade on Avenue A, summer of 1993 I believe it was. Asked her where she was going, she said she was playing a gig at the Knitting Factory, so I asked if I could com...
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Painting by David de Biasio
Contours of the Irreal: Paintings by David de Biasio
Don Van Vliet
Although it may strike a theorist as paradoxical, the artist’s sole response to a moment such as ours—with its ideological cowardice, its reflexive violence, its prurient spect...
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Large Ladies of LL Bean, a poem by John Trause
The Large Ladies of Lands’ End and L.L. Bean
Don Van Vliet
The Large Ladies of Lands' End and L.L. Bean "I have been heavy and had much selecting."      --Gertrude Stein, Lifting Belly [1915 - 1917] Because ...
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Herbert Huncke
Herbert Huncke: Letter to Dad
Don Van Vliet
Editor’s Note: This letter from Herbert Huncke to his Dad was first published in Peau Sensible, the print precursor to Sensitive Skin, in the summer of 1992. The issue also conta...
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Fluorescent Self Portrait painting Geoffrey Stein
Portraits by Geoffrey Stein
Don Van Vliet
I paint to find out what I think about the world: to discover the things I do not have words for. I savor the slips of the hand that express one’s unconscious feelings. I am inte...
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