Word: anciently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editor must not have considered the more appropriate evaluation best expressed by Picasso himself: "I am only a public entertainer ... I am celebrated; I am rich. But when I am face to face with myself, I have not the courage to consider myself an artist in the great and ancient sense of the word...
...tides of conquest and reconquest ebbed and flowed, the children of Israel and other would-be neutrals were swept off now to Egyptian bondage, now to Babylonian captivity. Today, though faces in the modern Iraqi and Egyptian crowds often show startling similarity to the classic profiles on the ancient monuments around them, neither country can claim much identity with its distant past...
...Christian vision must therefore be translated into terms which will have connotations appropriate to the contemporary context, and this translation has not been accomplished. It must rid itself of what applied only in the ancient world and must come armed against the idolatries of the twentieth century, not the first century...
...text by Reinhard Lullies, photographs by Max Hirmer (Abrams; $12.50), a handsome book that presents the entire range of Greek sculpture, from its origins to its final decadence, through Greek originals exclusively, instead of the usual mixture with spiritless Roman copies. In form, these figures are exactly what the ancient Greeks saw. But the note originally struck is muted: the brilliant colors with which the Greeks painted their statues have rubbed off the marble, and the burnished-gold hue of the bronzes has tarnished. Nonetheless, like buildings whose stone façades take on a glowing quality with...
...fantastic lineage to claim for just another wacky art colony. Nevertheless, a truth is suggested here-a bitter bite from the orange on the tree of knowledge. The vision of an earthly paradise is an ancient delusion. The trouble is not the earth but man. Miller's real estate is magnificent, and the photographs of the Big Sur country are wonderful, but alas, the personnel...