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THE DESIGN OF THE WEST
From: Artforum
Date: 20051201
Author:O'Brien, Geoffrey
THE DESIGN OF THE WEST WARLOCK BY OAKLEY HALL, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ROBERT STONE NEW YORK: NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS. 480 PAGES. $17.
America's great cowboy epic consists of a hundred thousand simulacra (cast in forms ranging from novels and movies to model kits and lunch boxes) of an imaginary original. At that primal point where other cultures find their Ramayana or Iliad or Le Morte d'Arthur, we make do with rumors and fabrications, replicas of wanted posters and tintypes of miners' shacks, Owen Wister and Zane Grey, and the deathless ideogram of a man on a horse crossing an empty space. ...
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