Word: depictions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must be discovered in a sustained experience of serious looking and judging...." In other words, Schapiro assures us that if we look long and hard enough we will inevitably see what he sees--that some of the most compelling works in the history of art do not depict human forms...
What, indeed, is the point of all this? Why does Abe depict people as freaks and reduce their motivations to a series of mechanical and sexual impulses? If, as the author once said, this novel is "a parable of city life," then it appears that we are a society of sick helping the sick. Abe, who holds a medical degree but has never practiced, breaks all human relations down into physician-patient relationships where, as "the horse" acknowledges, "Doctors are cruel, and patients endure their cruelty...that's the law of survival." It is not an appealing view of human...
...Senators-the SALT II accord had become a hostage to the Soviet troops controversy. Complained a top White House official: "It's this horrible hulk that threatens SALT II. It's demoralizing." Not only has the dispute given SALT's opponents a chance to depict the Kremlin as an untrustworthy treaty partner, but the controversy has seriously damaged the effectiveness of one of SALT's most important backers, Senator Frank Church...
...AUTHOR of The Rivalry had tried to depict the personal relationship of Lincoln and Douglas in his dialogue, the play might have more interest. Unfortunately, the dialogue fails to explore the characters of the two men, relying on texts of the debates to do so. As a result, The Rivalry remains nothing more than a tired rehash of textbook history. Abe Lincoln deserves better...
...brush drawings and etchings from life for eight years. In his paintings since 1973, that hunger is palpable, and it takes nothing for granted. "To paint from life at this point of time," he argues, "demands both the transgression and the inclusion of doubt." Transgression, because any effort to depict something is a shot at certainty; inclusion, because the central paradox of realism is that representation can never be completed. There is always a level of detail below which paint cannot go. What makes the realist painting is not complete illusion, but intensity; and there is no in tensity without...