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When antiwar hecklers interrupted him outside Cleveland, the Vice President dismissed them as "damn fools." He introduced Emmett Kelly, the clown, as "Nixon's campaign manager and economic adviser." Pointing to a nearby statue of William McKinley, he sniped: "That represents as much forward movement as the opposition's ever had." When Humphrey loosed a fusillade at Nixon during an A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Minneapolis, a happy worker bellowed: "Give 'em hell, Hubie!" Answered the Vice President: "What do you think I'm doing...
Coterie in the Country. As seen in Cleveland, the Yuan period emerges as one of sleek sophistication, technical innovation and fertile alienation. Though the Mongols established peace and reopened trade routes to the West, their court at Peking remained essentially barbaric. They were frank admirers of China's traditional culture and encouraged conservative sculptors to turn out temple and palace art, some of which has been preserved. The Cleveland show includes 15 bronze and wood statues, twelve silver vessels, jade and ivory carvings. Yet for all the emphasis on tradition the period was not stationary. Tremendous strides were made...
Seeking to re-evaluate the little-known period, Cleveland's Museum of Art this week unveils a 316-piece exhibit, "Chinese Art Under the Mongols." Says Sherman Lee, the museum's director and an outstanding Orientalist: "There will be lots of mistakes...
Before the Mongols, porcelain was glazed in one color. Under the Yuan rulers, blue-and-white vessels were developed, and became widely popular. One of the 32 pieces in the Cleveland show belonged to the 17th century Mogul Emperor Shah Jahan, builder of India's Taj Mahal. Among other exports on exhibit are Chinese silks found in Arab tombs in Africa and early carved cinnebar lacquerware, lent by a Japanese temple. But it was in defiance of Mongol tastes that one of the greatest of China's arts-scroll painting-made the largest advance of all. The most...
...composition peppered with the dots that were his particular brushwork "signature." While the finished composition may seem to Western eyes much like other Chinese paintings, to scholars it is as different from the Sung realists as a Jackson Pollock from an Andrew Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone can acquire with effort, but great painting is a personal record of the artist for his own private ingroup, and he doesn't care about what...