Word: angels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...modern writers and poets, and Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee, among modern artists, have updated the ancient mythological motifs. Campbell and the other mythologists are, in a sense, providing the workbooks for the poets-the modern Daedaluses in turtlenecks. "It doesn't matter to me whether my guiding angel is for a time named Vishnu, Shiva, Jesus, or the Buddha," Campbell says. "If you're not distracted by names or the color of hair, the same message is there, variously turned. In the multitude of myths and legends that have been preserved to us -both...
WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (Angel, 5 LPs). Aural splendor engineered by Meister-Conductor Herbert von Karajan...
...Anne. The only source is the apocryphal gospel known as the Protoevangelium Jacobi, written in 170-180 A.D. This account has it that Anne and Joachim were devoted, but Anne could not conceive. So Joachim went into the desert to meditate; his wife stayed home to worry. An angel appeared to Anne, Joachim had a vision in the desert, and Joachim and Anne met passionately at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. Left panel: at top, the marriage of Joachim and Anne; below, the priests of the temple refusing Anne and Joachim's offering. Right panel: above, the meeting...
...truth," Caravaggio painted directly from the subject, like Courbet 250 years later (there are no known drawings by Caravaggio). The sense of physical presence in his early work is so strong that a painting like The Ecstasy of Saint Francis, circa 1594, with its swooning saint and plump, comforting angel, is almost a homosexual version of the entranced flesh that Bernini was later to carve in his Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Caravaggio's angels and Bacchuses habitually looked as if they had been picked up in a Trastevere wineshop, which, no doubt, they were. Saint Catherine of Alexandria, circa...
...Real Man. In naming the world-renowned Chilean poet, Communist and ambassador to France, the academy picked another controversial figure. He is only the third Latin American to be given the coveted prize-following his high school teacher, Chile's Gabriela Mistral (1945), and Guatemala's Miguel Angel Asturias (1967). Some feel that his immense output-by his own estimate, some 7,000 pages of poetry-is occasionally marred by obscurantisn and Marxist propaganda. But Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, who was killed during the Spanish Civil War, praised Neruda as "a real man who knows that...