Word: gogh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Center performed a similar investigation about 10 years ago, when Van Gogh's "Shoes" was on display at the Fogg. In the laboratory upstairs, researchers found that a vase of flowers had been painted under the surface of the work...
Similarly, James Atlas '71, now an editor at The Atlantic, feels compelled to recall that he read every book on his pre-freshman-year reading list, and he mentions parenthetically that his choices of posters from the Coop were Van Gogh and Picasso. The writer Beth Gutcheon '67 notes that she could have made it through her Dickens tutorial by skimming Martin Chuzzlewit and a few others. "Of course," she adds, "if you should happen to wade through every word Dickens wrote--and of course I did--you would certainly find that there were rewards and memorable resonance even...
...academic tradition like Manet, rediscovered him as a great dissenter. Next the German expressionists like Marc and Kandinsky found in him a justification for the distortion of form to express passion rather than mere representation. Finally, the U.S. intelligentsia, just then discovering the provocations of Picasso and Van Gogh as expounded by the Museum of Modern Art in the '30s, discovered in El Greco an old master who seemed to relate to their excitement about the new art. They adopted him as a "rebel"-which in those days was de rigueur...
Some 20 miles northwest of Paris, in the bucolic town of Auvers-sur-Oise, where Vincent van Gogh painted and died, the afternoon calm was broken only by the sound of workers adding another wing to the residence-in-exile of Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi. Both the setting and the air of expectancy that pervaded last week were reminiscent of another place and time-when an exiled Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini held forth in the little village of Neauphle-le-Château just before Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown in 1979. As half a dozen visitors waited under...
Jeffreys has found it with Escape Artist, which is enjoying reasonably steady but not spectacular sales. It may be that Jeffreys' music is too highly charged for mass consumption and, perhaps, too overstuffed. Lyrically, the mystery kids show up side by side with Victor Hugo and V. Van Gogh. Jeffreys' ambitious and sophisticated synthesis of rock, reggae and jazz could easily become top-heavy...