Word: arcadia
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...Like It is, after all, Shakespeare's bow to the vogue of the pastoral, with its shepherds and shepherdesses and attractive landscape--inspired by the publication a decade earlier of Sidney's Arcadia. The work is also Shakespeare's answer to two popular Robin Hood plays staged the previous year by a rival troupe. Indeed the exiled men are here explicitly compared to "old Robin Hood" and his "many merry men," whose Sherwood Forest has become Arden Forest...
...true of the Derain as well. Today we luxuriate in its weighty design and audacious color, the blaring vermilion tree trunks, the complex blues in the caves of shadow, the pyrotechnics of green and yellow in the foliage. One moves into the work without strain; it is not an Arcadia, but a place well removed from the realities of industrial and urban Europe...
...thing to cerebrate; to narrate is quite another. On the evidence of these 16 collected tales, Author Thomas M. Disch, 36, can do both. Previously known as a writer of science fiction, Disch includes only one story-The Planet Arcadia-in the intergalactic mode. The rest adhere to a bizarre present that only the likes of Lewis Carroll or John Collier could produce...
...capitalist bourgeois who wield power in Italy. But Pasolini proposed no alternative to the existing power structure. Though he professed commuunism, Pasolini was no Marxist or Maoist, but a utopian, a romantic. His vision of the future society was of a "natural" society, a return to some pastoral arcadia (such as the one his early poems describe, inspired by the gentle countryside near Friuli). Taking refuge in literature, Pasolini found only intellectual answers to the economic and political questions his social conscience posed. His artistic sensibility searched out paradoxes, parallels, aesthetically pleasing statements (e.g., "we have come...
Surprisingly, Spanish art was poor in its American imagery-probably, Honour suggests, because of guilt at the genocidal cruelty of the conquista. Yet the Spanish massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...