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...weapons, canoes, ceremonial furniture-into the absorptive West. After 1900, very few major painters or sculptors in Europe or America were untouched by the primitive. Different movements had different agenda: the fauves and cubists, for instance, liked African art, whereas the surrealists annexed the Pacific from New Guinea to Easter Island (myopically ignoring Australia), while the expressionists like Emil Nolde, children of Thanatos, went for mummies and shrunken heads. Such affinities obviously matter, not only to art history but to the broader scope of Western social fantasies. So why and how did they arise...
...thing to draw Polynesian temples or the megaliths of Easter Island, as the Georgian William Hodges or Sydney Parkinson did, and quite another to imitate primitive styles as though their artists were as worthy of homage as Raphael or Ingres, which modernism did. The transition from one to another began with Paul Gauguin...
Young Hearts Crying slips seamlessly into the group of Yates novels that includes Revolutionary Road, Disturbing the Peace and The Easter Parade. All chart the kind of loss, loneliness and irony that are lastingly contemporary. He is just the writer that Michael Davenport always wanted...
Reverend Moon was born in 1920 in North Korea, where he was converted to Christianity by American missionaries. On Easter morning, 1936, Moon says that Christ appeared to him as he prayed on a mountainside and told him to complete the mission begun by the son of God. It is Moon's interpretation of that mission that has gained him both a great following and great notoriety...
...could be spent on deployment of the 21 missiles authorized last year and now under construction; second, the $1.5 billion needed for the 15 missiles in 1985 would not be released until both the House and the Senate passed authorization and appropriations bills again before next year's Easter recess. All of which means that if the Administration loses any of those four votes on the MX, production of the missile would end with the group of 21 now under...