Word: intellection
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...heavy. There are two long and ingenious catalogue essays by Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every...
...same the world over. Claude Lévi-Strauss, the French structuralist, gathered thousands of myths from different cultures and demonstrated that beyond their great diversity were even greater similarities. At the deepest level, believes Lévi-Strauss, there is an implacable pattern ingrained in the human intellect and this pattern has not changed since primitive times...
...five dollars, and Segal doesn't make up for that weakness in any other department. He's dispensed with things like descriptive prose, character development or even the maudlin emotion-grabbing of Love Story. Apparently amusement is the goal of this little book, and any strenuous exercise of intellect or emotions beyond that of, say, The Secret Storm or The Edge of Night is too tiring to be amusing...
CRIES AND WHISPERS is Ingmar Bergman's examination of the anguish each human being undergoes when he first discovers that man has no defenses: that transcendent faith in an otherworldly God answers none of his urgent earthly needs; that a developing intellect may bring with it a ruthless hunt for truth repelling all human contact; and that sensuality in itself can only occasionally relieve the pain of a personal void, and might even start a personality festering. The film is Bergman's most complete response to the traditional wisdoms: persevere in faith and you'll be rewarded, gain understanding...
...maternal breast; Maria's surface emotion hides her coldness and fear of true emotional commitment; Karin's analysis is harshly correct, but she lacks faith even in her own analysis and is therefore defeated by its truth. Each has failed to confront reality, which is composed not only of intellect, emotion and belief, but of transcendent faith which enunciates life's governing principle and thereby makes life bearable...