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...Soviets had a taste of the outside world during the era of detente, it was meager fare compared with the highly seasoned feast the Chinese have come to enjoy. Sidewalk bookstalls in provincial Sichuan now offer readers the autobiography of Archcapitalist Lee Iacocca, selected writings of Sigmund Freud, Harold Robbins' 79 Park Avenue and lavishly illustrated handbooks on how to apply eye makeup. Former students of English gather at twilight by the banks of Chengdu's Jinjiang river to practice their fractured grammar. The flashing sign above the dance floor at Guangzhou's luxury Baiyun Hotel actually reads WELCOME...
...short of such a comparison is still to achieve something. Stella is a pictorial rhetorician on the grand scale, and nobody who cares about the fate of abstract painting today could chew through this show -- cramped and arrhythmic though its installation is -- without being deeply moved. Just as Lucian Freud's exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington shows up the dinginess of most American figure painting in the '80s, so Stella's fearless panache and the profusion of his output refute the common idea that the possibilities of abstract painting are played out. From the fascist lugubriousness of early...
Henri Cartier-Bresson once said he approached his camera as a "combination of the psychiatrist's couch, a machine gun and a warm kiss." That language has a familiar ring to it. The shock compactions of imagery, the off-kilter linkage of sex, death and Freud -- it all smacks of surrealism. But who would expect to hear it from a great photojournalist? Cartier-Bresson's fame is based on four decades of incomparable camera reporting. Mention his name and what comes to mind is his great surveys of life in China, the Soviet Union and his native France...
...Freud called dream analysis the royal road to the unconscious. Psychologist Robert Van de Castle of Charlottesville, Va., agrees. But Freud, he contends, "gave us an unfortunate legacy, equating dreams with neuroses and revealing only the gutter side of our personalities." Dreamworkers are more positive. Explains Psychoanalyst Walter Bonime of New York City: "You can discover assets in dreams as well as pathology." Indeed, declares Psychologist Marcia Rose Emery of Grand Rapids: "If we honor our dreams, they can help and guide...
Could all this be simply a projection of Chatwin's own footloose urgings, a legacy from generations of talented Englishmen who sought regular escape from their restrictive little island? From Cain and Abel to Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents, there is ample sign of conflict between homing and nomadic instincts. Chatwin is not unmindful of the persistent ambivalence. He quotes Pascal's morosely amusing thought that all human misery is the result of our inability to remain quietly in a room...