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...television stations next January. "Picasso pervades the entire series," says Hughes. "The history of cubism is largely about Picasso. No discussion of art as political emblem can avoid Guernica, the last major political work of art. Picasso was a dominating influence on surrealism and the chief inspiration of American abstract expressionism. The shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without...
These are only a few examples; the power and surprise of the show lie in the richness of such variety. Taken as a whole, the pictures turn out to be less about cars than about photography, its prodigality as a medium, its capacity to abstract and transform the materials of reality. The show's real subject is the camera's ability to extract from the banality and clutter of common experience a meaning and order unavailable to the casual eye. What come through most sharply in the photographs is an immediacy and potency of detail, an aura of enchanted concreteness...
Hazzard's characters get "tangled" in history, their personal lives snarled or braided in its net. She buries the sprawling abstract formalism of the book, so reminiscent of the ancient tragedians and the old stories of Hardy and George Eliot, her literary forebearers, beneath a shimmering surface of immediacy. The novel makes its transit through lines and stars through the inner spaces of loneliness and passion...
There is always this balance between the wholly familiar in style, action, and observation, and the weight and concentration of huge, abstract, and emotional circles of magical and tragic resonance. Even ordinary details bring waves of meaning and inferences, while remaining easily acessible...
...lives of these people. More likely, they changed his, granting him a more humane and compassionate understanding of the richness of real life. That life goes on, time without end, below and beyond the political illusions that bemuse people with the education and leisure to indulge them. At the abstract level, Levi (and his book's cinematic interpreters) seems to be saying that the simpler the life people lead, the more resistant it is to the forces of change, even when those forces are backed by coercive power. Forty-five years deeper into the 20th century, it would have...