Simon Dinnerstein's Fulbright Triptych is so symmetrically a harmony and so richly a composite of genres (family portrait, still life, landscape, and a collage that amounts to a complex poem) that its anomalies aren't immediately apparent. He himself has pointed out that it's a painting by a graphic artist (and his Fulbright project is there on the table, dead center, a copperplate engraving called Angela's Garden), the baby on his wife's lap had not yet been born (his daughter, Simone, now a con-cert pianist), and what we're looking at is a serene Jewish family in a country that slaughtered six mil-lion Jews from 1933 to 1945. And among the fifty-seven images thumbtacked to the wall is an exit visa from Russia, dated 1918. The Dinnersteins, like the Chagalls and Kandinskys, the Einsteins and Panofskys, move about in the turbulences of history.

Introduction

The Art of Simon Dinnerstein

     Guy Davenport

Coming to Know Simon Dinnerstein: The Art and the Artist

     Miller Williams

In Dinnerstein's Painting, an Echo Chamber

     John Russell

To See and Be Seen: The Fulbright Triptych of Simon Dinnerstein

     Robert L. McGrath

Pictures of the Lasting World

     Rudolf Arnheim

The Urban View in the Art of Simon Dinnerstein

     Edward ]. Sullivan

Interview: "An American in Rome"

     Sharon Gill and Cathy Kimball

The Plates

List of Plates

Biography

Selected Publications

Acknowledgments