limned

Thirty years ago, the nook was filled with texts — mostly written by white men — that limned the landscape of criticism in which Black artists had to find their own footing.

Haring limned his oval head, the topknot above a receding hairline, a pair of prominent ears and eyes staring out from behind black-rimmed eyeglasses.

Here, the music that shapes the speech of Smith’s interview subjects is refined and elevated through Roumain’s richly limned and emotionally attentive score.

All these flat shapes are limned by dark lines — the reverse of the delicate nimbus of light surrounding them in the original.

There are images in “Uta Barth: Peripheral Vision” of curtain hems limned in light, a lamp hanging in otherwise empty space, the edge of a window frame, a horizon line of sofa cushions, distant trees.