Word: fleischner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maze of Grass. Apart, that is, from earthwork artists. Unfortunately, the Newport show is short on earthworks -simply because land there costs too much. There is one piece by Richard Fleischner, in the grounds of Chateau-sur-Mer, that shows exactly the kind of unpretentious but intelligent relation that an earthwork can have to its environment: an undulating meander maze, a barely noticeable ripple on the lawn, covered with sod grass. It is low-key and perfectly appropriate in its site, harking back to a time when stately homes had garden labyrinths as a matter of course...
Though now supposedly abandoned, that brand of dogmatism stressed that Jews were perpetual, persecuted wanderers because they had killed Jesus. In a special issue of New Catholic World, Religion Professor Eva Fleischner points out that the birth of Israel effectively contradicted that thinking: "If there was ever an example of history forcing the hand of theology, here...