Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...European view of the American Indian has generally been patronizing, to say the least. Pope's classic dig helped fix the image of a savage. A noble version was conceived by the 19th century romantics, but an ignoble one was later imported from Hollywood. Museums on both sides of the Atlantic have not helped much, tending to confine their Indian exhibits to ethnographic ghettos dominated by braves and their war bonnets. However, Sacred Circles, a stunning show of Indian art sponsored by Britain's Arts Council and private American donors as a U.S. Bicentennial event at London...
...abandon her sex research. She is once again circulating questionnaires, this time for a report on male sexuality. A possible hint of things to come: one portion of the current book is entitled "Do Men Need Intercourse?"Though Hite never answers her own question, she refers admiringly to the 19th century sexual practices of the famous Oneida Community in New York. The Oneida men usually indulged in intercourse but not orgasm...
...same Romantic awe at the rolling ocean that fills Al bert Pinkham Ryder's Toilers of the Sea, 1880, runs through the work of John Marin right up to his death in 1953. It also provides an essential clue to early Pollock. The immense, horizontal still ness of 19th century plains landscape floods the work of Georgia O'Keeffe...
...That was my country-terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." The paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), an artist ignored by the histories of American art, now seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley...
Lurid Picture. Measuring poverty is a peculiarly American compulsion. With the exception of Israel, no other country regularly assembles-and publishes-official statistics on its poor. Government interest in measuring poverty goes back to the 19th century, but today's system of annual reports began in 1965, when Congress decided that the flood of Great Society legislation demanded some useful yardsticks of prosperity. The result has been a system that is necessarily arbitrary and, some critics say, paints an unnecessarily lurid picture of U.S. poverty...