Kurt Vonnegut - first edition - Bluebeard
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This one is about a man who was in
on the founding of the first major art
movement to originate in the United
States, Abstract Expressionism, and
whose pictures all fell apart due to an
unfortunate choice of materials. He is
Rabo Karabekian, a minor character
in Breakfast of Champions, whose parents survived the first attempted
genocide of this century, the slaughter by Turkey of its Armenian citizens
before the First World War.
Rabo writes this autobiography in the mansion of his waterfront estate
in East Hampton, Long Island, New
York, which houses the largest collection of Abstract Expressionist paintings still in private hands- Pollocks,
Rothkos, de Koonings, Gorkys
Kitchens, and on and on. He acquired them in repayment for small loans to colleagues in the early days of the movement, when paintings about
absolutely nothing but themselves were considered worthless.
Tastes change
Kurt Vonnegut
April 1, 1987
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