Word: artes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...degree of Schadenfreude (pleasure in the misfortunes of others) dogs the aesthete's responses to modern primitive art. It gets written off as airport stuff for tourists, insincere, perfunctory, without the aura of mythical use. With the best of contemporary Aboriginal painting this cannot be done, partly because of the striking beauty and formal intensity of the work, but largely owing to the consistency and continuity of its central mythology -- that of the Dreamings, or ancestral beings...
...Tribal art is never free and does not want to be. The ancestors do not give one drop of goanna spit for "creativity." It is not a world, to put it mildly, that has much in common with a contemporary American's -- or even a white Australian's. But it raises painful questions about the irreversible drainage from our own culture of spirituality, awe and connection to nature...
...week to uphold a contempt ruling against him and his wife for failing to provide fingerprints and other requested items. Even so, the grand jury acted only after a proposed deal between the Justice Department and Marcos unraveled late Thursday. The agreement called for Marcos to forfeit real estate, art and jewelry in exchange for having the Justice Department drop plans for the indictment. In Honolulu, however, a Marcos attorney said the Marcoses were given only a "drop-dead deal" that would have required them to plead guilty to racketeering...
...ART: A look at the oldest visual tradition on earth...
...Manhattan a show illuminates the art of Australia' s Aborigines, who evoke their Dreamings, or spirit ancestors, in works of striking beauty...