Word: esotericism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Benton dates his rise from the Great Crash: "Because of the breakdown of our economic society in 1929 and the early 1930s, the effort to come out of the Depression occasioned a terrific concentration on America -what it meant, what it was composed of, why it was the way it...
MANHATTAN'S Museum of Modern Art is also a museum of esoteric art, both sophisticated and primitive. Among its most elaborate shows in the past were a survey of North American Indian artifacts, which visitors found hardly more savage than Picasso, and arts of the South Seas, which were...
Sessions: Three Chorale Preludes (Marilyn Mason, organ; Esoteric). In Composer Sessions' later works, the melody is sometimes pretty hard to follow, but these short pieces of 1924-26 bring it out clearly. Two of them are slow, serene and almost spiritual; the third is harsh and craggy. The organ...
There were many such examples, and more came from Holvik's copy of the scrapbook. One erudite article in it, for instance, ends with the Sanskrit expression "AUM," an esoteric syllable meaning "power." Toward the end of the Kensington inscription is the word "AVM," which has long baffled scholars...
Because of these limitations on the size and scope of the collection, specialists will find little to interest them beyond the glass doors and the pink marble foyer. Lamont's collections of books on such subjects as law, business, education, agriculture, and the fine arts are purposely small. Although the...