Word: crypt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...work in a haunting and oblique way. Margarete's presence is signaled, like a motif in music, by long wisps of golden straw, while Shulamite's emblem is charred substance and black shadow. Hence Kiefer's tragic image of Shulamite, 1983: a Piranesian perspective of a squat, fire-blackened crypt, the paint laid thick in an effort to convey the ruggedness of the masonry, whose architectural source (as Mark Rosenthal points out in his astute introduction to the difficulties of Kiefer's work) was a Nazi "Funeral Hall for the Great German Soldiers" built in Berlin...
...shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks to the things everyone has heard of -- the cow that started the Chicago fire, Little Egypt gyrating, Cyrus McCormick looming dourly over his agricultural-machine factory, or (in a crypt below the graveyard of New York's Trinity Church) the skeletons of Alexander Hamilton in his wig and Robert Fulton with his steam engine. Ruckus America is all one big pop-up book, done in an impressively resourceful, oompahing parade of stylistic parodies: corn-pone cubism, red- neck deco...
...Stanford approves the plan, Reagan would be buried in a crypt next to Stanford's Reagan Library. Architectural plans submitted with Reagan's request call for a marble structure similar to the Stanford family mausoleum, according to The Daily...
This is the premise for "Hoorah for Kelsey," one of two one-act plays that make up The War Years, appearing in the Kronauer Space of Adams House this weekend only. Directed by Laurence Thomsen and produced by Sean O'Brien, the production makes optimal use of a subterranean crypt that only the hippest theater artiste could consider a legitimate stage...
...Sacrifice after a junk-food diet of Hollywood movies is like ducking out of a carnival to visit a medieval crypt. You are pulled out of time and into a sacred stillness. The images, handsomely sculpted, address themes of life and death and life after death. Gods and gargoyles hover in the cramped air, dwarfing all human anxieties. Man is a mite here, pitiable in his ignorance of what matters, or else vainglorious in his quest to find the answers to riddles beyond his solving...