{"id":14716,"date":"2015-01-20T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=14716"},"modified":"2015-01-20T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T16:16:27","slug":"kick-that-habit-bellaart-does-burroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/01\/kick-that-habit-bellaart-does-burroughs.html","title":{"rendered":"Kick That Habit? Bellaart Does Burroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This pencil drawing of William S. Burroughs by Gerard Bellaart is one of two portraits. It&#8217;s the introspective Burroughs. The other drawing, a charcoal sketch to be posted soon, catches Burroughs in a wholly different state of mind, as if possessed by the Ugly Spirit that Burroughs believed had dogged him throughout his life. The text on the card is an excerpt from &#8220;Incidental Intelligence&#8221; to be published in full in <em>The Z Collection,<\/em> a tryptich of portraits to include Godfrey Reggio and Norman Mailer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14715\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/01\/kick-that-habit-bellaart-does-burroughs.html\/jh-burroughs-recto375\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"375,562\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Drawing of William Burroughs [Gerard Bellaart, 2014]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375.jpg\" alt title=\"Pencil drawing of William S. Burroughs [Gerard Bellaart, 2015]\" width=\"375\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-recto375-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14714\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2015\/01\/kick-that-habit-bellaart-does-burroughs.html\/jh-burroughs-verso375\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375.png\" data-orig-size=\"375,562\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Excerpt from &amp;#8216;Incidental Intelligence&amp;#8217; [Jan Herman]\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375-200x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375.png\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375.png\" alt title=\"Excerpt from &#039;Incidental Intelligence, A Portrait of William Burroughs&#039; [Jan Herman]\" width=\"375\" height=\"562\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375.png 375w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/JH-BURROUGHS-verso375-200x300.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This pencil drawing of William S. 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