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April 29, 2009
Peter Saul, Robert Storr, Dan Cameron, and Michael Duncan Peter Saul: A Retrospective Exh. cat. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2008. 160 pp.; 94 color ills.; 2 b/w ills. Cloth $55.00 (9783775722049)

Exhibition schedule: Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, June 22–September 21, 2008; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, October 18, 2008–January 4, 2009; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, February 7–April 5, 2009

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.43

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Peter Saul. Bush at Abu Ghraib (2006). Acrylic on canvas. 78 x 90 inches (198.1 x 228.6 cm). Hall Collection.

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“I do like to hit the nerves,” painter Peter Saul confesses. Yes, but that doesn’t mean we have to like it when he does. In the past, whenever I encountered Saul’s paintings—unmistakable with their garish, artificially hot colors and repellant imagery—I quickly withdrew from this frontal assault on my sensibilities. As it turns out, I was shortchanging myself. I rescinded my snap judgments after seeing the first major U.S. survey of Saul’s paintings and drawings...