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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born into a moderately comfortable Seattle family, Evans inherited his interest in politics from his mother's side. "One of the earliest remembrances I have is watching mother dress up to go to the Herbert Hoover victory celebration when he ran against F.D.R.," says Evans. "It has become a standing family joke...
...makes it appear to be bombed out; vast areas are given over to empty plots and parking lots. These, plus railroad yards and even highways, would make ideal sites for future new towns within towns, of which projects such as San Francisco's Golden Gateway Center are only the earliest prototypes. Population will be dense, Owings admits, but city dwellers will get around more easily; traffic functions will be divided into layers, with pedestrians in the open air and rails and roads beneath them...
...perhaps more important to remember that he is a native of Spain than to try placing him in a particular artistic movement. The Farm, finished in 1922 and bought soon afterward by Novelist Ernest Hemingway for $200 in Paris, is one of Miró's earliest efforts to distill the essence of Spain and the way in which its savage, whimsical, passionate people still cling close to the earth. The scene depicts the farm bought by his father, a Barcelona goldsmith, at Montroig, a coastal village in Catalonia. For all its literalness, the painting is anything but realistic...
...never flamboyant, Miró has always been in danger of being dismissed as merely playful. Happily married, reluctant to engage in polemics, disliking grand gestures, he has never been one to charm and bedevil the public as have his fellow Spaniards Dali and Picasso. As one of the earliest and most abstract of all the surrealists, Miró was already a near-legendary figure among his fellow painters by the 1930s. But even in the 1960s, there are still critics who argue that his art is too shallow, too cheerful, too clever and, above all, too personal and too eclectic...
...know that it was performed before Queen Elizabeth and her court in 1597. But there is good evidence that this was a revision of an original written in 1588, which would make it the earliest of Shakespeare's plays to survive. Regardless of its date, it betrays an author who was dramaturgically unsure of himself...