Visual Arts

Issue 1

Interview with Al Gury

Issue 2

Life in the Decay: Per Contra Interviews with Kendall Anderson

Peter Groesbeck: The Per Contra Interview, Photography and Painting

Portrait of a Boy by George Winston Lee

Issue 3

Interview with Zhi Lin

Interview with Rulan Geiger

Interview with Max Mason

Ancestral Pioneers: Women Who Set the Course by Al Gury

Lascaux to Last Week: Art History's Survey Texts by Larry Silver

Reinventing a New Classic: The New Janson by Charles Morscheck

Issue 4

Interview with Alex Katz

Interview with Eric Fischl

Interview with April Gornik

Four Hundred Years Young by Larry Silver

When the Spirit Moves - Photography by Abioseh Michael Porter

The Tibetan Photo Project, Culture Preserved Through the Lens 

Issue 5

Interview with Lynn Hershman Leeson

A New Sacred Space: Michael Somoroff’s Illumination I by Donald Kuspit  

Interview with Michael Somoroff

Hieronymus Bosch, Tempter and Moralist by Larry Silver

Issue 6

Interview with Lincoln Schatz

Discrepancies Between Art Historical and Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Avant-Garde Painting:  Fry and Greenberg contra Balint and Fairbairn by Donald Kuspit

Our Vermeer by Larry Silver

Issue 7

Still Against The Grain:  Thomas Chimes’s Commemoration Of The Original Avant-Garde, Or Of The Old Exceptions That Have Become The Rule, Or Of The Underground That Has Become Aboveground by Donald Kuspit

Interview with Donald Kuspit

Rembrandt and the Jews, Revisited by Larry Silver

New Photography by Peter Groesbeck

Issue 8

Interview with Thomas Chimes

The Real Abstract: Louise Bourgeois’s Sculpture by Donald Kuspit

Defining Jewish Painters in Nineteenth-Century Europe by Larry Silver Part 1

Issue 9

Interview with Thomas Chimes

Diaspora and Identity: The Modern Jewish Painter by Larry Silver Part 2 of 2

Issue 10

Joe Danciger, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Poetry As An Enactment of Looking: The Unhealable In Rilke by Donald Kuspit

Tom Palmore, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

The Dutchness of Dutch Art by Larry Silver

Issue 11

Jonathan Borofsky, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Up from Under: A Note on Structural Mimesis by Carter Ratcliff

Issue 12

Jonathan Borofsky, the Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin - Part 2

Issue 13

Judith Stone, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Interview with the Painter and Printmaker Jack Boul by Dr. Eric Denker

Issue 14

Wolf Kahn, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Issue 15

John Langdon, the Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin With Gallery of Images

Jeff Gordon, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Issue 16

Aesthetic Transcendence And Transformation by Donald Kuspit

Issue 17

Diane Burko, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

Issue 18

Philip Sultz, The Per Contra Interview with Miriam N. Kotzin

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