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The mermaid at the americana arms motel
When is art no longer art? Must the artist disappear to make the true object visible? And when does the art object become only an extension of commerce?
A survivor of Europe's 20th-century nightmares now unhappily teaches art at a regional university. There, under the relentless desert sun, beside a swimming pool, the narrator of The Mermaid at the Americana Arms Motel recalls a lifetime of hopeless pursuits as an artist in the company of that century's most celebrated painters. To his fury and despair, he becomes involved in a conflict he is sure will compromise the integrity of his art. Although he tries to resist, resistance has its price. |
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