The size of an island skyline postcard, Lee Joong Seop\u2019s \u201cFamily\u201d at the Leeum Museum in Seoul looks like
\nPicasso\u2019s \u201cGuernica\u201d in miniature. But I didn\u2019t know why, with his mother on the other side of enemy lines<\/p>\n
And a wife and kids seeking asylum in Japan, he would choose to imitate a work of art barely ten years old
\nAnd hanging in another meridian, until I realized it wasn\u2019t that at all: the locked limbs and heads flat<\/p>\n
Against the ground like boulders weren\u2019t brothers bent on killing each other in the hills around Madrid
\nOr, like a fling in The Mirror Room of a love motel, an orgy of synchronized lovers. The figures<\/p>\n
Are always the same two, replicated out of poverty and an intense desire for a lover\u2019s body,
\nUntil the room was populated with four wives, and an equal number of the artist to lie next to them.<\/p>\n
On a volcanic island, drunk and days away from death by starvation, how ecstatic it must have felt
\nTo be suddenly not alone, to have in his hands the other world of the aluminum cigarette foil.<\/p>\n
The size of an island skyline postcard, Lee Joong Seop\u2019s \u201cFamily\u201d at the Leeum Museum in Seoul looks like Picasso\u2019s \u201cGuernica\u201d in miniature. But I didn\u2019t know why, with his mother on the other side of enemy lines And a wife and kids seeking asylum in Japan, he would choose to imitate a work of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-18B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10307,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/10307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}