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'One Life: Walt Whitman'

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20060630
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What is Hans Namuth's photographic portrait of abstract- expressionist painter Jackson Pollock doing in an exhibition on 19th- century poet Walt Whitman?

I don't really know, but I like the fact that "One Life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos" tries to establish a link, as critic Michael Brennan did when he compared Pollock's art to Whitman's poetry for its "febrile electricity, body fluid semblance and ejaculatory discharge, and sweeping overtures toward the ecstasy of nature."

ONE LIFE: WALT WHITMAN, A KOSMOS Through April 1 at the National Portrait Gallery. First floor east.

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