Touching the Art
This hybrid work of biography, social history, and criticism weaves memoir seamlessly into the mix ... Rejects easy answers for a stretching of forms.
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Opens with a collage of memories, ekphrasis, and philosophical aphorisms that mimic the slippery nature of Sycamore and Gladys’s adult relationship ... Sycamore’s use of present tense is both immersive and propulsive.
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Possibly the most brilliant choice the author made was arranging this book as a kind of collage — a nod to the medium in which Goldstein worked. Sycamore explains how her grandmother’s pieces interact with one another and their environments, both historically and physically ... Sycamore elegantly weaves together a variety of subjects.
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