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Hodgkin's complete originality is in his color, which, as art historian Michael Auping says in the catalog, "has a strange quality of simultaneously seeming totally invented, yet completely natural." Its reds and lemon yellows, its blackened viridians and fiercely luminous blues, its swoony Whistlerian grays are like no other color in modern painting. They give his work a perverse to-and-fro between the intimate and the operatic--Aida done in a marionette theater. Such color isn't just showy. It can be extremely tender, intelligently seductive, in the way that art has every right to be. It also...
...Joyce and Ezra Pound. His work, with its flowing contours and obsessively refined surfaces, was one of the main sources for Art Deco style. Imagine the top of the Chrysler Building carved from oak, and you have something very like his sculptural bases. As Rowell points out in the catalog, guests in his Paris studio would be regaled with homemade sheep's milk cheese and a glass of iced champagne--funk and chic together, essential Brancusi. He loved contrasting the rough with the smooth, the hyper-refined freehand curve with the lump and the block. And when those sleek organic...
...QUEEN MARY By James Steele. (Phaidon/Chronicle; $55). The wish book of the year. The liner's glory days between the wars coincided with the apogee of Art Deco. This volume can be enjoyed as a catalog of an elegant, seductive style or, better yet, as a guide to travel in a luxury no longer available, even to the rich. The swimming pools of the three classes are so beckoning it is hard to choose among them. The insinuating lighting and the low, enticing lounge fittings call for ambrosia and a suspension of time...
...choice but to look American history in the face. So amazingly significant are the names that are carved onto the simple brick of our buildings: Adams, Quincy, Mather, Leverett, Kennedy, Emerson, Eliot, Winthrop, Cabot, James, Wadsworth, Goffe, Longfellow--the list is endless and boggles the mind. Indeed, the catalog of the intellectual, spiritual and political leadership of the United States bears so uncanny a resemblance to the list of Harvard's alumni that this College's designation as a fascinating and legitimate subject of study seems evident, even obvious. (In his book New England Literary Culture, Professor Lawrence Buell points...
...Catalog operators, for their part, are facing not just slack demand but also the rising costs of paper and postage this year. L.L. Bean, which experienced a $25 million jump in such expenses, will launch television commercials for the first time in its 83-year history this Christmas to help promote its 800 number. Rival catalog giant Lands' End plans to resist the industry price-cutting trend by holding its prices level with those of last year and offering extras such as free gift boxes and monograms. Says Lands' End president Michael Smith: "If you're selling computers or electronics...