Issue edited by Joseph Masheck. Essays "Two Critics: Thomas B. Hess and Harold Rosenberg," by Donald B. Kuspit; "Beginning Again," by Marcia Hafif; "Chicago's Emotional Realists," by Joanna Frueh; "William Baziotes: Primeval Sentiment," by Peter Plagens; "Death and Maternal Love: Psychological Speculations on Robert Motherwell's Art," by Jonathan Fineberg; "Composite Imagery and the Origins of Photomontage, Part I: The Naturalistic Strain," by Robert A. Sobieszek; "Capital Follies," by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe; "Jake Berthot's Recent Work," by Steven Kasher; "The Venice Biennale: Can it Rise Again?" by Jan van der Marck. Reviews by Ronald Onorato, Leo Rubinfien, Richard Lorber, Deborah Perlberg, Jeff Perrone, Hal Fischer. Cover: Jake Berthot.