Word: eastering
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...ensemble splits into three broad geographical areas: Africa, the Americas and Oceania (that vast and anthropologically complex area from Easter Island to the Torres Strait, embracing the scattered island cultures of the Pacific as well as Australia and New Guinea). The sweep of the collection reminds one that at almost any time in the world's history up to now, the overwhelming majority of art made for any purpose at all was what we call primitive: that is, in the words of Douglas Newton, curator of the Met's new wing: "Primitive culture has been the major part...
...essentially a literary cliche: the world microcosm, the great passions of the large war replicated on a smaller scale, not among nations, but among a small group of individuals. In the beginning there is peace and a rustic scene of a small girls' school preparing for a charity Easter egg hunt. This Easter peace is broken when one of the young students at the school is discovered to be missing...
...like the Easter eggs she writes about, Freeman's tale is delicately and colorfully sketched. From afar, it is a bright and cheerful scene. Poor closely, however, and you begin to see the delicate flaws of the picture. Only then can you see the missed brush strokes and splotches splenty hidden in this pastoral scene...
...attention to detail allows for subtle echoings and image patterns. There is, for example, a recurrent image of infertility. Marriages that were never really marriages. A long line of titled nobility ending in an imbecile son. Secret abortions. And of course the primary image, the decorated, but hollowed-out, Easter...
...context. Yet despite the fact that Freeman has our values and knows the same literary buzz words we do, she succeeds in re-creating an era on its own terms--an era for which Freud had no answers, when a young lady's unchaperoned absence raised eyebrows, and when Easter egg hunts were actually...