Word: staticity
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...COUNTRY BEAUTIFUL: out last April, a glossy collection of static landscapes and static prose edited by a Roman Catholic priest and financed by a group of Midwest businessmen. Country Beautiful's goal: to reach "the man who aches to have the cleanness of the fields brought to his city...
Under the new plan, modern weapons will be furnished to the Self-Defense Corps, the village guards who now make do with clubs and ancient muskets. The Civil Guard, an armed police auxiliary, will be doubled. Eventually, the Civil Guard will be trained to take over many of the static defense jobs that now tie much of the army down. The U.S. also wants to raise the army from 150,000 to 170,000 men, drill more and more of it in the stealthy jungle tactics that the Viet Cong itself uses...
Wild Gentleness. On the surface, his Mary Magdalene (see overleaf) seductive though she may be, seems an excessive display of virtuosity, as stilted and brittle as a piece of porcelain. But there is nothing static about the Massa Fermana polyptych. From the wild gentleness of John the Baptist to the virile saintliness of the great Pope (sometimes identified as Gregory, sometimes as Sylvester) to the sweet composure of the Madonna, the emotions change, though so subtly and silently as to be almost imperceptible. Crivelli's paintings, said Berenson himself, are "full of the deepest contrition, most tender pity...
...show was the idea of Phillip Lewis, the museum's curator of primitive art, and the 31 pieces came from some 500,000 objects in the museum's collection. "Primitive art in general tends to be rather static," says Lewis. "But when these craftsmen were given the impetus of a new people, they were released from the static view of their own society. There is no question that the colonists had an impact upon their art." Lewis believes that some of the sculptures may have been made to be sold to the whites, but if the show proves...
...five declared war on all forms of artistic isolation: the isolation of the artist from society, the isolation of one object from its environment, the isolation of the individual senses. Even a static object had motion, for it could not escape having some sort of tug-of-war with its surroundings. "Our bodies enter into the divans on which we sit, and the divans enter into us," explained the futurists. Motion subjected each object to minute-by-minute change: one thing always led to another, sight invariably involved sound, vision turned into emotion. All this-the total feeling of life...