{"id":1440,"date":"2006-06-04T11:24:24","date_gmt":"2006-06-04T18:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2006\/06\/picture_it\/"},"modified":"2006-06-04T11:24:24","modified_gmt":"2006-06-04T18:24:24","slug":"picture_it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2006\/06\/picture_it.html","title":{"rendered":"PICTURE IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/media.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2006\/05\/25\/PH2006052501209.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Unidentified chained slave [From 'Rough Crossings' (Hulton\/getty)] CLICK TO ENLARGE\" src=\"http:\/\/media3.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/photo\/2006\/05\/25\/PH2006052501206.jpg\" width=156 align=left border=0 \/><\/a>From the &#8220;one picture is worth a thousands words&#8221; department, this one of a chained slave in post-Revolutionary America appeared with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/05\/25\/AR2006052501204.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>Stanley Weintraub&#8217;s review<\/strong><\/font><\/a> of two books, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/006053916X\/ref=pd_rvi_gw_1\/104-1575367-2715942?%5Fencoding=UTF8&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;Rough Crossings&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0674021932\/qid=1149433318\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-1575367-2715942?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;The Forgotten Fifth,&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in this morning&#8217;s Washington Post. The review itself is routine, less interesting than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/04\/books\/review\/04staples.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>critique by Brent Staples<\/strong><\/font><\/a> in The New York Times Book Review.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/04\/books\/review\/04staples.html\" class=inline target=new\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Illustration by Viktor Koen [NYT]\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2006\/05\/29\/books\/stap190.jpg\" width=190 align=right border=0 \/><\/a> The Staples piece, focusing solely on &#8220;Rough Crossings,&#8221; is more specific and literary (recalling, for instance, &#8220;the contradiction cited by Samuel Johnson, who inquired &#8230; of the Americans in 1775: &#8216;How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of Negroes?'&#8221;), and it has a striking illustration, too, perfectly suited to the review: George Washington ensnared in a bullwhip, but it&#8217;s not nearly as affecting as that photo.<br \/>\nAnd from the &#8220;while I&#8217;m at it&#8221; department, my favorite literary critic, Clive James, has a nice long <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/06\/04\/books\/review\/04james.html\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>must-read review<\/strong><\/font><\/a>, also in this morning&#8217;s NYTBR, about a new anthology, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1931082928\/qid=1149433900\/sr=2-1\/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1\/104-1575367-2715942?s=books&#038;v=glance&#038;n=283155\" class=inline target=new\"><strong><font color=#003399>&#8220;American Movie Critics.&#8221;<\/strong><\/font><\/a> James has little use for auteurist hype, which I happen to agree with (especially when it comes to the usual polishing of the Ford <i>oeuvre<\/i>), but it&#8217;s the entertaining pleasure of the writing that makes the piece a must.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Weintraub&#8217;s review of two books, &#8220;The Forgotten Fifth,&#8221; in this morning&#8217;s Washington Post. The review itself is routine, less interesting than the The Staples piece, focusing solely on &#8220;Rough Crossings,&#8221; is more specific and literary (recalling, for instance, &#8220;the contradiction cited by Samuel Johnson, who inquired &#8230; of the Americans in 1775: &#8216;How is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1440","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-ne","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}