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Subtitled Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, this astonishingly accomplished first book by an American-born Chinese woman haunts a region somewhere between autobiography and fiction. Yet it hardly matters whether the woman who tells (or muses) the book's five stories is literally Maxine Hong Kingston. Art has intervened here. The stories may or may not be transcripts of actual experience. They are, unquestionably, triumphant journeys of the imagination through a desolation of spirit...
Died. Man Ray, 86, American-born artist known as the last of the red-hot Dadas; in Paris. A short, wiry man with penetrating eyes, Ray cultivated a sense of surprise, even contradiction, in his work. He often mocked the traditions of art-and of just about anything else -that stood in the way of what was possibly his greatest creation: his indomitable individuality. A resident of Paris since 1921 (except for a ten-year stretch in Hollywood starting in 1940), Ray was most successful as a photographer. His other work included Rayographs (images made by placing objects directly...
Calder's activity straddled two continents; he kept studios in France and the U.S., and was one of the first American-born artists to be accepted as a charter member by the European avantgarde. Still, as his good friend Fernand Léger once put it, Calder was "a hundred percent American." His heritage was also art. His Scottish-born grandfather, Alexander Milne Calder, came to the U.S. at 22, later sculpted the famous 37-ft. statue of William Penn that stands atop Philadelphia's city hall. Father Alexander Stirling Calder sculpted the classic George Washington statue...
...ancestor's crossing of the Atlantic in a slave ship, Haley took a freighter from Africa to the United States, climbing down into the ship's cold dark cargo hold to lie on the rough planks stripped down to his underwear. Kunta's initial difficulty understanding and respecting American-born blacks, the selling of his daughter to the owner of a distant plantation, rape by her new master, and the economic struggle they faced in the post-slavery period, are all episodes which cover a broad range of emotional and factual material, yet Haley describes them with such natural...
...Fletcher Little, illustrates the limner tradition with 76 paintings by 34 artists, backed up with domestic objects of the sort that appears in those stiff, poignant effigies-chairs, painted floorcloths, a child's coral-garnished silver whistle. The other show, "Copley, Stuart, West," deals with the first three American-born painters to escape from this matrix and enter the European arena in order to become, in the full sense of the word, professional artists...