Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Priscilla is one of those exasperating people who appear poised under all conditions. She can be part of someone's fantasy or grubby pursuit without misplacing a lustrous strand of her hair. Hughie Duncan, an irrevocable romantic and book editor, is allowed to worship her as an untouchable goddess. The physically and morally repugnant newspaperman Henry Feathers is granted bed privileges, partly out of pity and partly, as the author writes of this woman who is at her best in crises, because "like King Midas murmuring his secrets to the earth and stones, Priscilla needed a confidant who would...
...from Gabon. Sometimes, though, a modernist work would take off from an African object of the first rank. Such was the case with Picasso's bronze of Marie-Therese Walter, 1931, whose erotically swollen blimp of a nose is based on an effigy he owned of the fertility goddess Nimba from the Baga. The sight of these two sculptures confronting each other is as much a spectacle of parity as a Rubens beside its prototype, a Titian...
...artists, and Picasso most of all, were enthralled by the associative power of the fetish. The otherness of tribal art was infinitely compelling, and remains so today: practically no Western sculpture in the 20th century has the sheer iconic majesty of the wooden goddess from the Caroline Islands lent to MOMA from Auckland, New Zealand, or the creepy terribilita of the British Museum's figure of the Austral Islands' god A'a, one of Pi casso's favorites. The main value of primitive art to modernism was not formal but quasi-magical. It gave the artist...
...matter of artistry or indecent exposure. In the late 1950s Miller was a prince among Broadway playwrights, but west of the Hudson he was less than a prince consort; he was Mr. Marilyn Monroe. For the 4½ years of their marriage, the egghead and the sex goddess were headliners in every tattling tabloid, and their divorce in 1961 hardly stilled the clucking, for the next year Monroe was dead from an overdose of barbiturates. Miller must have found this stardom by proxy offensive. Yet in a way, After the Fall accedes readily enough to the demands of celebrity: Tell...
...images of the Black woman are as other the emasculating matriarch or the bitch goddess," Brookins said...