Lament of an Audience on the Death of an Artist: (1985)

This is the record of the pilgrimage of one great artist reflected in the experience of one small audience. When Sam Peckinpah died in 1984 I spent some time working out my responses to his work as a whole and more generally puzzling over the experience of following contemporary artists as their work takes shape. I ended up lamenting Peckinpahs death pondering those wonderful ovies and reflecting on what all our watching reading and listening amounts to in our living.