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TONI CHILDS has done something tougher than just make another terrific record here. She has beat the jinx. Her debut album in 1988, Union, was one of those comet-like appearances that occur more frequently in pop music than they do in the firmament, leaving the listener simultaneously dazzled and wondering, a bit uneasily, if she could ever do it again. Many don't, after all. But then, it's becoming increasingly clear that Toni Childs plays only by her own rules. HOUSE OF HOPE (A&M) is a record about emotional battering: in love, in childhood, in marriage...
...images are keyed to the scale of the single brushmark and yet seem immeasurably far away, out in deep space. By Pousette-Dart's own account, they were influenced by the graininess of astronomical photography. They don't read as literal pictures of the firmament but rather as invitations to contemplate the far in the near. Some of them rely on the kind of "sacred geometry" -- archetypal figures, the square, the circle, the triangle -- that obsessed Kandinsky or Kupka. And at their best, because of the nuanced sensibility that goes into the labor of building up their primary forms, they...
...brightest star in the family firmament is Antonia. Her mother recalls that this precocious firstborn "always wrote, even before she could write -- poems, little stories. She could read before she had any idea of the meaning of the words. Frank and I called her the wonder child." Which is not to say she was candy-coated. Young Antonia was fiercely competitive, on the tennis courts with her brother Thomas and on the football team at a boys school that admitted a handful of girls on equal footing. The genesis, perhaps, of her view of woman-as-equal...
...When, four decades ago...T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he seemed pure zenith, a colossus...fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon," Ozick writes...
...since Europe's Renaissance has such a large and varied body of living Christian art been produced. In inaccessible rural workshops, thatched-roof villages and teeming urban slums, a firmament of fine artists inspired by Christian themes is emerging from within a much larger community of folk artisans. The movement is thriving in spite of serious obstacles. Most artists lack patrons, lucrative markets and substantial schooling. With tools, paint and canvas in chronically short supply, Africans work with whatever materials are handy. Wood is thus the most popular medium. If stained glass is too costly, colored resin is applied...