Word: dove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite." Thus Henry James tried to cut through the psychological brambles of his own Wings of the Dove. Last week Manhattan operagoers saw an attempt to render the Jamesian complexities in song: the New York City Opera première of Composer Douglas Moore's The Wings of the Dove...
...song. Still, Composer Moore ( The Devil and Daniel Webster, The Ballad of Baby Doe) was fascinated by the story of a young Englishwoman who urges her penniless lover to start a flirtation with an ailing American heiress, hoping that the heiress, who is compared in the story to a dove, will soon die and leave him rich and free. In stripping the story to the operatic bone, Moore and Librettist Ethan Aver changed the name of the scheming suitor from Merton Densher to Miles Dunster (because, says Moore, ''the name Densher could not be enunciated today without...
...historical galleries and moves on to those devoted to the present, he has a sense of having been there before. The descendants of Marcel Duchamps' "readymades"-a bicycle wheel, a bottle rack, a urinal, all shown just as they are, but out of context -are everywhere. Arthur Dove used needlepoint, some old shingles, and a page from the Concordance to evoke the essence of Grandmother, just as Edith Schloss uses worn and faded materials for her nostalgic Dow Road and Stephan Durkee for his affecting Sale. The futurists' obsession with the automobile finds its echo...
Seeking insights, he began with out-sights. "Have been trying to memorize this storm all day so that I can paint it,'' wrote Dove. When memory joined method to produce patterns of color, with representation virtually removed, he started toward a style that a whole generation of modern American artists have since pursued. In 1910 he painted abstractions and called them just that. Dove "found a new way of presenting his feelings for landscape even before the Russian-born Kandinsky ∣Europe's "father of abstractionism" ∣ hit upon a similar method of freeing colors and lines...
...Dove's flight was no easy one. The public would not fly along with him. Before his death in 1946, he perched in many New York and Connecticut rookeries (yawl, yacht club, farmhouse, abandoned roller skating rink, abandoned post office) and pecked away at many trades (chicken farmer, lobsterman ). But he worked stubbornly at translating matter into spirit, and buried in the ground work that failed his standards. Currently on display in a major retrospective at the Worcester Art Museum are 43 works that stayed above ground. They look contemporary as can be; and perhaps...