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Major Collaboration. But no brief summary can do justice to the aesthetic wealth of this show, to its in sights into political and social history - there is a particularly good section on European responses to the American Revolution - or to its close texture of information. It is as fine an...
"I'm going to be lovable, magnanimous, charming, witty and irresistible - not the aesthetic creep we all know and can't stand." So says Actor Nicol Williamson, talking about Sherlock Holmes, whom he plays in the forthcoming movie version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. In the film...
Without doubt, the show of Mark di Suvero's sculpture in (and out of) Manhattan's Whitney Museum is one of the biggest enterprises ever to involve a living artist. The works−65 in all, ranging from tabletops to steel monsters five stories high−are distributed...
All this is minor in light of the far larger errors and oversights Hougan makes in the process of drawing his conclusions. The basis of his advocacy of decadence for Americans is that nobody is really poor any more, or wanting, or discriminated against, and hence that everyone is able...
Historical Sense. Always apart, a little aloof, with neither an ideology nor an all-encompassing aesthetic theory, Trilling put his main emphasis on a "historical sense" in criticism. He once described his curiosity to know "what at a certain time people liked or demanded in the way of literature and...