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...said, to show "the natural changes of Landscape and those effected by Man in his progress from Barbarism to Civilization -- to the state of Luxury -- to the vicious state or state of Destruction etc." He stirred in all manner of different cultures in this pastiche. The Pastoral or Arcadian State, for instance, has references to early Hesiodic Greece coexisting with a temple based on Stonehenge; and the climactic paintings of The Consummation of Empire and Destruction are the kind of eclectic cast-of- thousands fantasies that would later be put on film by D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille...
...never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself. But the antique mold was a perfect receptacle for some of his plastic obsessions, such as the human back, and for the Arcadian vision he inherited from the past and shared with other avant-gardists like Stravinsky...
...lines are appropriate nevertheless to a consideration of Michael Mann's ravishing realization of The Last of the Mohicans. From its first images of a deer hunt to its last shots of hero and heroine gazing westward toward mist-shrouded mountains, the film's sensuous evocations of an Arcadian wilderness draw us into a remote realm -- just as the need to penetrate the majesty and mystery of that landscape draws its characters irresistibly on to fates ennobling and tragic...
...what's more interesting is Marrs' arcadian vision of what America might be like today if J.F.K. had lived: "No divisive Vietnam war . . . ((no)) Watergate, no other political assassinations, or the Iran-contra-Pentagon-CIA attempt at a secret government. Detente with communist Russia and China . . . ((would have saved defense dollars)) that could have been put to use caring for the needy and cleaning up the environment . . . no organized-crime control over drugs, gambling . . . even toxic waste . . ." One feels Marrs believes that if Kennedy had lived the toxic waste just wouldn't have been as toxic anyway, because...
...fourth- generation resident of the county, still remembers how his grandfather lost his orchard to a freeway in 1960 and how, even in the late 1960s, fields of sugar beets and lima beans and perfumed orange groves stretched along Route 55 from Santa Ana to Costa Mesa. That arcadian vision lasted until nearly 1970. Then, in just 20 years, Orange County grew by nearly 1 million people as 90,000 acres were transformed into commercial "edge cities," freeways and houses. Industry then rushed in and created hundreds of thousands of new jobs, but not enough new housing was built...