Word: allegorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once was, as an appendage to his poetry. He is more apt to be seen as one of the key figures in the history of English radicalism, rendering the upheavals of his time in a framework of cosmic mythology: the friend of Tom Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, the burning allegorist of revolution in France and America, the poet of liberty. But no exhibition in living memory has offered quite so much access to him as this one. We see the artist, warts and all: the epiphanies but the fustian too. It is an invigorating show and, obviously, a taxing...
...exile in 1877. There is always room for argument over the extent of Courbet's realism. The man who insisted on setting down the bald truth of visual experience, from a drunken priest's red nose to the drool on a stag's jaws, was allegorist and history painter as well as factual witness; and there he could be very puzzling indeed. The debate on Courbet has been stepped up by a magnificent retrospective that opened this fall at the Grand Palais in Paris and will move to London in January. With a catalogue by Art Historian...
...plagiarism suits for a film company-by proving that both plaintiff and defendant had stolen from older sources. He now makes a most convincing case that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the ex-eye doctor who created the world's most famous sleuth, was really "a compulsive self-revealing allegorist." Rosenberg unearths both hard and agreeably circumstantial evidence that Conan Doyle modeled the evil Professor Moriarty on Friedrich Nietzsche -not because the philosopher was a criminal but because Doyle's Vic torian conservativeness was offended by Nietzsche's ideas about Ubermenschen who were beyond good and evil...