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THE EMPTY CANVAS (306 pp.)-Alberto Moravia - Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.50).
To write a novel about boredom is to invite literary disaster. But Italian Novelist Alberto (The Woman of Rome) Moravia has taken on such challenges before, and managed to deal with such themes as poverty, fascism and dictatorship by translating all of them into a framework of sex. In The...
...emotion. Violet waves of rubble might in one canvas wash up upon some imaginary shore in the heart of the city; in another canvas a lone fisherman rows slowly down the River Spree as scores of dark windows stare blankly out of vacant interiors. In Heldt's final canvases, the city itself broke up into childlike chunks of color that teetered and lurched crazily against one another. The color was bright but shadowless, and the streets were eerily still...
A Sense of Outrage. The Dead Christ was one of Mantegna's last works. In the Agony, he had experimented with the figure of St. James by showing it to the viewer almost feet first, and thus fore shortened. The Christ carries the experiment to the ultimate, and the...
Conductor Antal Dorati faced 17 musicians wearing 18th century breeches, periwigs and white silk hose. On a balcony overhead. Surrealist Artist Salvador Dali abruptly appeared in a Venetian gondolier's outfit and a red Catalan cap, began splashing brown and gold paint on a canvas with such vehemence that...