Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...give a poster or print, A calendar done by Matisse (psst...hint, hint), Or give to an artist a new set of brushes And some fresh-colored paints, for those finishing touches...
Smoking anything without inhaling. Cooking with pine nuts. Drinking espresso, even though it tastes awful. Drinking San Pelligrino water instead of Perrier, or Perrier instead of club soda. Joining an unworthy cause. Talking about Decon-structionism or unloading your artistic/thesis anxiety on any available listener. Calling yourself an artist. Going to Harvard...
...giant Vs that stretch across the Swan Sky (Philomel; $13.95). One season a female becomes too weak to travel. Her family is torn between staying with her and obeying the magnetic force that pulls them northward. With striking woodcuts in black, white and pervasive blue, Tejima, a Japanese artist, explains the cycle of the seasons and the migration of birds, which, like humans, carry on an unspoken dialogue with the changing face of nature...
...Your father was an artist, yet you have had a career in diplomacy...
...cameras love Baryshnikov, but the key to this book's success is Fraser's total sympathy with this complex artist. Fraser helped Baryshnikov break away from a Soviet tour group in 1974, and he seems to have won his complete trust. Usually reticent, Baryshnikov speaks with stinging intimacy of his mother's suicide when he was twelve, broods about women (he loves American women but has difficulty living under the same roof with one) and gripes about the toils of fund raising. He also talks -- without the least defensiveness -- about one of his several goals: to be a giant-screen...