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Other works on display include Francois Boucher's "Mme. de Pompadour and her Toilet," Kirchner's "Self-Portrait with a Cat," the Egyptian "Stele of Ramses II," and the likenesses of such historical figures as Julius Caesar, Sophocles, Louis XIV, Nero, and Oliver Wendall Holmes...
...scene from Watteau or Boucher come to delicate, lilting life. An amorous pastoral allegory in three acts, or entrees, its dramatis personae include shepherds, sylvans and fauns. One of the greatest hits of the 18th century, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fetes d'Hebe proclaims the potency of poetry, music and dance in the highly ornamented, graciously stylized cadences of the French baroque. But can such a gentle artifice still speak to the brutal and cynical 20th century...
...strategy" (how the art world loves military lingo!) is "appropriation," or image scavenging, a process somewhat different from the traditional ways in which Western art has always quoted other art. Images have been recycled within the fine-arts tradition almost since art began. The Cnidian Venus turns into a Boucher, an Ingres, a Matisse. Picasso runs 44 variations on Velasquez's Las Meninas. Always, art comes from other art, giving culture a vernacular of recurrent forms, which are reinvested with subtly or sharply different meanings. In this way, the artist connects himself to the living tissue of the past, legitimately...
...Gerald Boucher of South Hadley. Mass., died from rejection of his second heart after doctors at the Harvard's affiliated Brigham and woman's Hospital and the donor mine himm a new leave on life to mouths earlier...
Mudge agreed, saying that Boucher enjoyed hunting and working after the transplant and would certainly have died much earlier without the operation