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...That was my country-terrible winds and a wonderful emptiness." The paintings of Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), an artist ignored by the histories of American art, now seem the obvious relay station between the crags and glaciers of the 19th century sublime and the jagged forms of Clyfford Still. To a New York audience, Tack's extraordinarily subtle paintings, which mediate between abstraction and landscape imagery, will seem almost familiar -be cause they predict and predate so much American painting of the '50s. Even the rhetoric is familiar; one finds Tack in 1920 describing a 'valley...
...industrial-ends in megalopolis, where man coheres "unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter of fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful ..." Arnold Toynbee, in his monumental A Study of History, charted Rome and America through similar cycles of triumph, disintegration and collapse; like the empire of Augustus and Tiberius, imperial America could end in "a schism in the soul...
...North regime's belligerence is even more impressive considering the opposition it faces. Even important segments of the military have made clear their disapproval. Lieutenant General Sir Jeffrey Amherst and Admiral Augustus Keppel, two highly esteemed officers, have said that they would serve against any European enemy but not against the Americans. Indeed, at least nine general officers reportedly turned down the American command before General Howe accepted...
...left the army lax and indolent. It was a time of great prosperity, and excess wealth had its customary enervating effect. But it was the lack of supporting structure behind the impressive forms of government that doomed Rome, Gibbon believes. He traces this lack to the very first Emperor, Augustus, who ruled from 27 B.C. to A.D. 14. Augustus' predecessor and adoptive father, Julius Caesar, had been assassinated in the Senate, and this worked its effect on "a cool head, an unfeeling heart and a cowardly disposition." Augustus, Gibbon says, "wished to deceive the people by an image...
...HEIRESS by RUTH and AUGUSTUS GOETZ...