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...Quiche Maya tribe) and the Relacion de las Cosas de Yucatan, an account of Maya culture during and immediately after the 16th century Spanish conquest written by the Roman Catholic bishop Diego de Landa. By the 1890s, Alfred Maudslay, an English explorer, was compiling the first comprehensive catalog of Maya buildings, monuments and inscriptions in the major known cities, and the first excavations were under...
Moreover, somewhere near the heart of Dubuffet's idea of a poor art, a raw art, was a large and genuinely democratic tolerance. "The persons I find beautiful," he wrote in a catalog preface, "are not those who are usually found beautiful . . . Funny noses, big mouths, teeth all crooked, hair in the ears -- I'm not at all against such things. Older people don't necessarily appear worse to me than younger ones." Of course, Dubuffet's nudes in the 1950s are sexist, as sexist as Rabelais -- those rosy-brown, squashed-flat, gross and scarily funny "Corps de Dames" that...
...historian Susan J. Cooke points out in an interesting catalog essay, Dubuffet's portraits of French intellectuals were something more than "literary portraits," as such things might be understood in London or New York City. They dropped, under the decidedly ambiguous title "More Handsome Than They Think," into a culture that had always put a high symbolic value on the idea of the writer as conscience of the society. And this was at a time when quite a few writers (such as Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, editor of the prestigious La Nouvelle Revue Francaise) had betrayed that idea by siding...
...Peter Schjeldahl points out in the catalog, Dubuffet "had the transgressor's secret love of limits, the outlaw's perverse attachment to laws," and this repeatedly shows itself in a sense of surface, texture and inflection that becomes extravagantly, almost morbidly, refined. His figures made of butterfly wings are exquisite; looking at some of his surfaces, particularly in the later collages and "Texturologies" of the 1950s, one finds oneself comparing them to the tarnished and mottled silver leaf on a Japanese screen or to richly tanned and patinated leather. Doubtless some of them present insoluble problems for the conservator...
...business. Combined, QVC and HSN will generate about $147 million in annual cash flow, which would come in handy to finance Diller's dream of taking TV shopping to its next evolutionary stage: making it interactive. An advanced interactive system would let viewers browse through a sort of "video catalog" of a store's merchandise and place orders on-line and on-screen. Says Diller: "This will allow us to bring the future closer and faster...