Word: fetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remains one of the divine mysteries of civic entrepreneurism why this retirement community would care to host a five-day showcase for films from a proud but ailing industry 6,500 km away. Yet this year, its first without heavy sponsorship by the state of Florida, la fete Sarasota has progressed from an endangered species to a cheerful inevitability. The French and the Floridians actually seem to be getting along. Most events are sold out, with a packed house of local Sarasotans, French movie stars and U.S. distributors. Zarazodah, as the French call it, is now a beguiling fixture...
...sugary, mildly erotic Garden of Love, replete with cherubic angels and sparkling applications of paint, is a far cry from the violent and dramatic Prometheus. Illustrating an open-air party of fleshy, amorous aristocrats dressed in satin, Garden of Love is an obvious precursor of the eighteenth-century fete-champetre popularized by Rococco artists such as Watteau...
...story starts out in May 1990, when, as a freshman, she went to the Eliot Fete with Todd Fletcher '91. She remembers the scene vividly...
When you look at a Watteau fete champetre, an Impressionist boating party or certain Matisses, you are seeing the long-range results of Titian's and Giorgione's invention of the pastoral mode in art: the landscape of pleasure, the earthly paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants and nymphs. The picture that starts this long train is Titian's Concert Champetre, circa 1509, which is one of the most hermetic and disputed images in all Western art. It gets about 27 columns of dense text in the catalog, chewing over its literary sources, the presence...
...most Eliot experience was undoubtedly my very first: attending the renowned Fete after getting into the House (and, as our t-shirt reads, you didn...