Word: chthonic
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...artist of his time to rekindle that idea and recover some of its archaic roots. Moore's King and Queen, 1952-53, gazing out over the stony ocean of Scottish moors, are the descendants not of 18th century garden sculpture but of something older, more vital and mysterious: the chthonic spirit of place embodied in the dolmens of Carnac or Stonehenge...
...give only a faint impression of Rivera's achievements as a muralist. But his strength as a draftsman on the large scale can easily be assessed from the cartoons for the Detroit Industry frescoes. A drawing like Figure Representing the Black Race has a formal strength to match its chthonic allegorical power; it makes you realize what levels of graphic sophistication lay beneath the populist surface. Such is Rivera at his best, but even at his worst the man's kitsch and bad taste have an orotund wholeheartedness that seems endearing. His mock-surrealist landscapes of the 1940s, together with...
Some may find such imagery not merely archaic but positively oldfashioned: invocations of the chthonic and the primitive have been standard modernist fare for three-quarters of a century. But Bourgeois uses her primitive quotations to get past the conventional groupings of modern art history-the litter of isms that tells us so little about the real meanings of art-and to rummage painfully between the layers of her own makeup. What equivalents can art find for depicting femaleness from within, as distinct from the familiar conventions of looking at it from outside through the eyes of another sex? What...
...other side of these chthonic appetites lay some of the most haunting images of metamorphosis and erotic fulfillment in the history of Western art. They were provided by his affair with Marie-Thérèse Walter, a young woman whom Picasso picked up outside a Paris department store in 1927. He was 45, feeling trapped in a sour marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova; Marie-Th?...
...Seminary of Classical Philology. "On <> in Greek Literature until about 300 B. C." Mr. W. H. P. Hatch.--"Remarks on Greek Chthonic Deities." Mr. J. W. Hewitt.--"Commentary on Lysias xxvi." Mr. G. F. Heffelbower. Harvard...