Word: crones
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...haunting images in the viewers' minds: the despair of an out-of-work electrician's helper in a dirt-floored hut in Caracas; the satisfaction of a fisherman whose family has a fine new cottage in a Cuban cooperative-and the naively shrewd question of an old crone about how the family's wretched old furniture would look in the new house...
...Congo bristles with nails that were driven into it to transmit pain to a human foe. A tiny ivory Eskimo looks as if it might have been carved by Henry Moore; a clay Mexican bowl from the days before Christ bears the withered countenance of a fierce old crone; a majestic "ancestral figure" from New Ireland (near New Guinea) possesses the beard of a man and the breasts of a woman. One of the rarest pieces is an oil dish from the Fiji Islands: it looks like a modern sculpture of a punch-drunk goon...