Word: rousseau
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...show documents the whole range of Surrealism's vast output in pursuit of surprise and mystery. It even exhibits an entire wall from the Paris studio of Surrealism's ideological father, André Breton, hung with 44 years' worth of his bizarre memorabilia and his own collection of Rousseau, Kandinsky...
...sexual content at all, no secret genitals or nipples that even the dirtiest-minded brat could ferret out. This has always helped to make him a great favorite with worried modernist parents and ensured that reproductions of his work, such as They're Biting, 1920, outnumber even those of Rousseau's jungle scenes in the nurseries of the West as unbudgeable classics of childhood...
...America has lived happily with the past--ours and the world's. How could we not? The Constitution itself continues to be a remarkably workable compilation of historical references that swing from the moderate Enlightenment stability of Swift, Hume and Locke to the wildest dreams of Blake, Wordsworth and Rousseau. The American solution to the stifling and compromising balances of the Enlightenment was the risky (and Romantic) extension of the Bill of Rights...
...ahistorical to view Columbus through the lens of today’s moral standards. It is the kind of work that pop historians have done for years with their Troubled Genius biographies: Kepler was a nut, Hemingway was a drunk, and don’t get us started on Rousseau...
Yardstick submits that Columbus was as brave as all the myths and rhyming couplets say he was. Columbus was a fanatical leader with a superior sense of Manifest Destiny, like Hemingway with more focus, like Kepler with a better-developed sense of history, like Rousseau with more diplomatic facility. Columbus’ lifetime achievements are monumental: He captured the faltering imagination of Western Europe. He gave to her people the only the thing that could resuscitate her failing fortunes: hope...