<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post2870704818071325766..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>9</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8209067272437219704</id><published>2007-10-27T06:43:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-27T06:43:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The Wikipedia link mentions here mentions a follow...</title><summary type='text'>The Wikipedia link mentions here mentions a follow up to the First Diasporist Manifesto, just published this month by Yale University Press &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300124569&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This book, a follow up to Kitaj’s influential First Diasporist Manifesto (1989), is a personal reflection on the Jewish Question in contemporary art as it is lived and painted </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8209067272437219704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8209067272437219704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193481780000#c8209067272437219704' title=''/><author><name>NearFar</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15332109996702426302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1356016621"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 27, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8530419089210901481</id><published>2007-10-26T10:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T10:06:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Bobbi Lurie asks me to post the following:R.B. Kit...</title><summary type='text'>Bobbi Lurie asks me to post the following:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;R.B. Kitaj is one of the truly great painters this world has ever known! On a personal level, his work has informed my work (as a painter) tremendously. (But as a writer as well) I recommend his book: &quot;First Diasporist Manifesto&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;here are some quotes from this book:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;“The Diasporist pursues the phantom myths of nervous histories he </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8530419089210901481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8530419089210901481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193407560000#c8530419089210901481' title=''/><author><name>Ron</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09250950725876683923</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/silliman/silliman2a.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-660918411"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8961308100979616741</id><published>2007-10-26T01:27:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T01:27:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Google!here it is..SMILE ON THE VOID is the unoffi...</title><summary type='text'>Google!&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;here it is..&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;SMILE ON THE VOID is the unofficial history of Ralph M&#39;Botu Kitaj, written by John Hall, former science fiction writer and Kitaj&#39;s secretary/companion.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Born in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, Kitaj was smuggled out and adopted by an aristocratic French family. When they died on safari in Africa he apprenticed himself to a shaman. As a young man Kitaj had</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8961308100979616741'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8961308100979616741'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193376420000#c8961308100979616741' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6742818012113003555</id><published>2007-10-26T01:22:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T01:22:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I remember reading a sci-fi bookin my early teens ...</title><summary type='text'>I remember reading a sci-fi book&lt;BR/&gt;in my early teens with a character called Kitaj. I remember a slight vertigo when the name appeared again&lt;BR/&gt;years later when i discovered RB, me thinking it sounded too neo to be familial. I wish I could remember what the sci-fi book was. Kitaj the character was a kind of prophet or sorceror. very odd and perhaps trivial, of course.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/6742818012113003555'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/6742818012113003555'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193376120000#c6742818012113003555' title=''/><author><name>phaneronoemikon</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08430230355065457354</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://www.hevanet.com/solipsis/images/phanero.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1411460047"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 26, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7170173917303898589</id><published>2007-10-25T21:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T21:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of my favorite art books (it may no longer be ...</title><summary type='text'>One of my favorite art books (it may no longer be in print is _Kitaj:Pictures and Conversations_by Julian Rios. The combination of a book length ranging interview with a generous number of reproductions is my idea of heaven.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/7170173917303898589'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/7170173917303898589'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193361480000#c7170173917303898589' title=''/><author><name>Tom Beckett</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/08956557701199101102</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1611280848"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-492904773734093497</id><published>2007-10-25T16:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T16:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>An interesting painter who led an interesting life...</title><summary type='text'>An interesting painter who led an interesting life, and, yes, as fine an American draftsman who ever lived.  Perhaps he was born a bit too late to ever gain the accolades he wanted, and, at times, deserved.  None the less he still had a Hell of a run.  It will be even more interesting to see how Kitaj is remembered...for some reason I think he will be more a curiosity than a flag pole, the flag </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/492904773734093497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/492904773734093497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193345820000#c492904773734093497' title=''/><author><name>Levari</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03797267895979862964</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='23' src='http://www.glennmcdonald.com/images/Marian%20McPartland%20%20-%20Jazz%20portrait,%20A%20Great%20Day%20in%20Harlem%20-%201958.JPG'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1958627702"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4074099649300820667</id><published>2007-10-25T15:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T15:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>One of my favorites, a creator of dramatic tableau...</title><summary type='text'>One of my favorites, a creator of dramatic tableaus that don’t cheat the gazer out of any mysteries or individual interpretations.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Thanks to the lucrative nature of his genre he would respond to a rut or blockage by packing his bag, going to the airport, looking up at the departures screen, and picking a destination right before boarding.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/4074099649300820667'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/4074099649300820667'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193342220000#c4074099649300820667' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6138879488353173122</id><published>2007-10-25T08:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T08:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>An amazing draftsman, his drawings are gorgeous.</title><summary type='text'>An amazing draftsman, his drawings are gorgeous.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/6138879488353173122'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/6138879488353173122'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193315040000#c6138879488353173122' title=''/><author><name>Linh Dinh</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00328959360983573810</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1957330200"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8729437948482519653</id><published>2007-10-25T01:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2007-10-25T01:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;in style and uncertainty toward that shore&quot;Gettin...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;in style and uncertainty toward that shore&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Getting lonesome around here. What with the empty walls &amp; all</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8729437948482519653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/2870704818071325766/comments/default/8729437948482519653'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html?showComment=1193289480000#c8729437948482519653' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2007/10/r.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2870704818071325766' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/2870704818071325766' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="October 25, 2007"/></entry></feed>