Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devilmaker. In general, Bahian art is the product of humble and nameless artisans. But so potent is Exú that even making his image is rarely undertaken except by direct appointment by the Orixás (gods). Top Bahian devilmaker today is Reginaldo Andrade Costa, 28, a part-time garage mechanic who agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments...
...exhibition in Moscow last summer), Bucky Fuller has delved into the geometry that underlies nature's structures from the atom to the planetary system, to produce two more pioneering ideas. Last week they were on view in the floodlighted garden of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art...
...through the film in a torrent and fill the performers, most of them amateurs, with the fervor of the creator's faith. It is a faith in nature, a worship of the sun and everything it shines on. Director Camus has realized in a passionately pagan work of art the Christian intuition of William Blake: "Everything that lives is holy...
...turn of the century, Gertrude followed her brother Leo to Paris. Leo was the art pundit and collector in those early days, but he was everlastingly tinkering with his psyche, so that when a San Francisco spinster named Alice Babette Toklas appeared, "soft, small, and warmly murmurous," Gertrude switched boon companions for life. The two gentle ladies from America enjoyed living in the eye of the bohemian hurricane. There was the writer André Salmon, who foamed at the mouth with delirium (he later claimed it was soap) and nibbled the trimmings on Alice Toklas' hat. There was Alfred...
...Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Thornton Wilder's modern classic, Our Town, with Carney as the stage manager who tells all because he knows...