Word: canvases
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Despite the tragedies of war and death, laughter and the mean and drunken energies of life go on. While a British warship is shelling this Dublin slum, O'Casey's characters are out looting the shops, trying on fancy hats, trundling pianos down the streets and pulling big...
IN the past few years, the look of vestments used in Christian ritual has changed. Chief reason is the democratization of the Catholic Church. Vestments once had a hierarchic purpose: the presence of the priest at a raised altar, draped in a chasuble thick with gold and silver embroidery, stiff...
He had an unerring sense of material, texture, esthetics and practicality. These are all marks of good architecture, but they first surfaced in Breuer's furniture: tables, kitchen cabinets and, above all, chairs. Inspired by his bicycle's handlebars in 1925, he bent tubular steel into a frame...
MANN STICKS CLOSELY to Montgomery's scenario, and sends it off with the balletic theatrics and vivid emotionalism needed to give it effect. The entire play is enacted on a stage base except for a canvas-sectioned backdrop behind which white figures rhythmically evoke the contortions of the Idiot's...
In 1957 Francis titled a canvas The Whiteness of the Whale, an open invitation to connect his work to Melville, who wrote of Moby Dick in a celebrated passage: "But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness...why, as we have seen, it is at once the...