Review of \u3ci\u3eAlexandre Hogue: An American Visionary -- Paintings and Works on Paper\u3c/i\u3e by Susie Kalil

Susie Kalil\u27s Alexandre Hogue surveys the artist\u27s paintings and drawings from his earliest works of the 1920s to his mature paintings from the 1980s. Hogue remains best known for the Erosion series he produced in the 19305 and has been marginalized unfairly as a Regionalist ever since. Kalil intends to change that categorization by repositioning Hogue as a visionary painter who explored fundamental relationships between humanity and nature through a sensitive understanding of place. She hopes to leave the reader with a sense of Hogue\u27s continuing attempt to give voice and form to some of his deepest feelings and intuitions. This argument depends primarily on a metaphysical interpretation Kalil derives from her close formalist reading of Hogue\u27s work. Lengthy quotations drawn from the numerous interviews Kalil recorded with the artist between. 1986 and 1994 provide some support for this interpretation