Word: contrivedness
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In the gilded works, the mood is often different. In his Apollo Belvedere, Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (Antico), the best of the bronze sculptors at the Gonzaga court in Mantua, produced a figure of almost stylized grace. The Homage to Sculpture is blatantly-though magnificently-contrived. Bernini's 6...
Contrived and perverse as it is, Firbank's world seems curiously real. Poet-Critic Wystan Auden argues that Firbank's enchanted literary garden is really a "picture of the Earthly Paradise," where everything is pure fun because all are pure. Moral judgments do not apply to Firbank'...
Greenberg has reconstructed a Renaissance Mass built around Josquin's Missa Gaudeamus (1502). Interspersed between the sections of the Ordinary were small motets and instrumental portions by other composers, and the entire piece was entitled Missa de Nativitate Beatae Virginis Mariae. Since vocal and instrumental scoring was not indicated in...
Advise and Consent. A tense melodrama-contrived but exciting-about the rough-and-tumble of Washington politics.
THE TALENT SCOUT, by Remain Gary (209 pp.; Harper; $3.75), is a potboiler with a difference. The difference is the devil. Not that he ever appears, but he is at the heart of a readable but contrived political allegory which talented Novelist Gary (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L) could...