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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE once described Aime Cesaire as a poet who "snatched" surrealism from the Europeans and turned it against them. One of the best-known Black Francophones, Cesaire not only assimilated the dominant culture to attack it eventually, but he transcended the physical and psychological ruins of colonialism and...
Once again, one is confronted by that angelically ranging mind, that steely eye and that infinitely skilled hand. And though the short catalogue, by Leonardo Experts Carlo Pedretti and Kenneth Keele, can do no more than touch on the scientific and aesthetic ramifications of Leonardo's work as anatomist...
Leonardo dissected bodies and drew what he found for two reasons. He wanted to systematize the scientific study of anatomy at a time-the late 15th century-when the human skin was the frontier of unknown territory. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes...
Some of the works are as schematic as engineering diagrams. Others, including his famous study of two skulls cut across their cranial vaults, are done with an exquisite realism of tone and shading that rivals the most delicate passage in his studies of inanimate nature. Others still, like the wonderfully...
That may be an extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard...