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...like the totemic bone forms of Picasso's grotesque anatomies of the '30s, the projects for immense figure-based sculptures that he fantasized building along the Côte d'Azur. But their whole import is different. There is no dislocation or fear in them: they are, as William Blake put it, "the lineaments of gratified desire." The climate of sexual politics has changed so irreversibly in the past 50 years that one cannot imagine a painter trying such images today. In that sense, Picasso closed another tradition in the act of reinventing it. The same applies to his visions...
...teacher. In the years before his illness Grandine taught both Shakespeare and epic poetry with a quiet intensity, able with acumen and dry with to expose the heart of the most difficult works. His lectures were models of directed intelligence; as he led students through Virgil, Spenser, Milton and Blake, he avoided the twin perils of near-sighted textual analysis and bland generality, and presented the poets as men whose ideas could instruct us or help us make sense of our own lives...
...jazzmen are able to get by consistently on their musical earnings. During lean years, Sam Rivers set lyrics to music for a mail-order house; Anthony Braxton used to hustle chess in Washington Square. A few fortunate musicians have found niches in education-- Ran Blake and Ken McIntyre head departments at the New England Conservatory and at SUNY Old Westbury. Alternative education centers offer a tenuous existence to some, like Karl Berger's Creative Music Studio in Woodstock and River's Soho performance loft, both of which depend on a precarious assortment of grants and private donations for support. Life...
...money that rock performers earn nor the status that classical musicians enjoy. The format is a familiar one--as series of profiles and interviews. What sets Ullman's book apart from dozens of other jazz books is his perceptive choice of subjects. Sam Rivers, Doc Cheatham, and Ran Blake have been professional musicians for decades, but as far as most people are concerned, they may as well have performed in secret. Most of the portraits in Ullman's gallery come from the fringes of jazz but, artistically at least, jazz thrives at its fringes; Jazz Lives unearths a variety...
Shaw is a Vesuvius of eloquent rhetoric. But his ideas are borrowed, chiefly from Nietzsche, Ibsen, Marx, Darwin, Wagner and William Blake. A grand proselytizer, he was to those men what St. Paul was to Christ...