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| Artist Solien finds himself in Mickey Mouse and 'Moby Dick' (The Capital Times) |
| In some of his most colorful, hallucination-like paintings, you find famous Walt Disney cartoon characters like Goofy and Mickey Mouse. In others, you see characters from classic American literature by Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Cormac McCarthy. That blend of high and low, of the serious and the whimsical, is a signature of University of Wisconsin-Madison art ... |
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| Oakley Hall, 87; Western author and writing teacher (Los Angeles Times) |
| Hall, a well regarded Western novelist, helped build UC Irvine's prestigious writing program and launch the careers of such writers as Michael Chabon, Richard Ford and Amy Tan. Oakley Hall, an author and teacher whose novels set in California and environs helped define contemporary Western literature and who also helped launch the literary careers of such prominent writers as Michael Chabon, ... |
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