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...sometime poet who plays a mean folk guitar in his spare time, Brauer, 40, considers his paintings essentially literary. As often as not, they depict bizarre updatings of Biblical themes: Jacob in the khaki of a kibbutznik, Noah's ark floating through the air like...
Humphrey and Christensen do not, of course, depict gallant knights or maidens fair, as did 19th century Romantic painters. But the instinctive way in which their styles have evolved and the relaxed way in which they paint reflect the Romantic definition of the artist as propounded by John Ruskin. "The whole function of the artist," wrote Ruskin, "is to be a seeing and a feeling creature. He may think, in a byway; reason, now and then, when he has nothing better to do; know, such fragments of knowledge as he can gather without stooping, but none of these things...
...accused are not without counsel. Many Congressmen, academics and ordinary citizens retain confidence in the nation's military leadership. Some, like Political Science Professor Morton Kaplan of the University of Chicago and Politics Professor John Roche of Brandeis, depict the military as scapegoats for a frustrated, roiled nation. If blame must be placed, it is argued, civilian policymakers deserve a goodly portion. Senator Henry Jackson of Washington bemoans the fact that the military has become the protagonist in the "latest version of the devil theory of history...
Giant Butterfly. A cultural hero's welcome awaits him. At the premiere of Dreams, the audience demanded 31 curtain calls. Critics raved about Yun's prodigious orchestral and vocal writing and his intuitive knack for fantasy. The first work, Dreams of Liu-tung, depicts the adventures of a frivolous student who is converted to Taoism when a magician conjures up four dreams that chillingly depict his fate. Butterfly Widow is a comedy about a high-court functionary, Chan-tse, who dreams each night that he is a beautiful giant butterfly. A philosopher tells Chan-tse that...
Whether "art" or not, the show is marvelously evocative and dramatically presented. The first galleries, filled with old pictures and resounding to taped melodies of spirituals and ragtime, depict Harlem as it was in the early years of the century: a prosperous white neighborhood. By 1905, Negroes from the South had begun to trickle in-living then, as now, in appallingly overcrowded quarters. In those far-off days, as recorded by James Vanderzee, a gifted but little-known Harlem photographer who is now 82, Negroes did their best to look more respectable than whites, genteelly taking tea in beauty parlors...