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Albrecht DŸrer (1471-1528) was the master of Renaissance printmaking, and his use of this first reproducible media can seem precociously cunning for a pre-modern artist. Throughout his career, he produced five complete series of 'Passions,' describing the stages of Christ's suffering and crucifixion. They were marketed to the masses, as devotional material to be studied in quiet meditation. Bound together into books, they were sold by Drer's wife at local fairs and by clergy at places of pilgrimage. According to the first and most unreliable of art historians, Giorgio Vasari, Drer's mid-life...
...This is more the fault of the gallery institution in the abstract than of the List Center in particular. Unfortunately, the audience is just as trapped by the gallery institution as the work is behind the glass; the visitors gaze as reverently at, say, a baseball "signed" by Du*rer, as they would at a nativity scene. These works are humorous, shocking, psychologically subversive-and somehow that message has been lost in the translation...
...French subway station Tuesday evening, killing at least two people and injuring 80 others. Seven of those wounded are said to be in "very serious" condition. According to state-run France Info radio, the blast occurred at 6:05 p.m. at the underground Port-Royal station, which serves the RER regional line. French Prime Minister Alain Juppe, who arrived on the scene soon after the blast, said no one has yet claimed responsibility, but suspicion immediately fell upon Algerian militants who had claimed responsibility for a string of similar bombings in 1995. Initial reports by French television said the bomb...
...Great Painters (Putnam; $15.95), Italian Artist Piero Ventura ranges through history from the pottery of ancient Greece to the murals of Picasso. Along the way he stops to consider almost every major artist; he shows how Dürer worked in woodcuts, the techniques of Holbein (seen painting the clothes of a straw model because the King is too busy to pose), the hidden Christian imagery of Goya, the palette of the impressionists, the contained violence of the fauves and cubists. Ventura augments photographs of the paintings with his own sketches of the artists at work, explains such terms...
...Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac to a shadowy ascension of Jesus into heaven. But Bernard's eclectic and refreshing selection presents many other visions, some quite surprising. The 19th century American Thomas Cole grandly evokes the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden; old sobersides Albrecht Dürer brings a light-hearted touch to, of all things, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah; and John Martin, a 19th century Englishman with a 20th Century-Fox mind, offers a Cinemascopic Belshazzar's Feast that obviously showed Hollywood the epic handwriting on the wall...