Word: goldenly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Mondrian set about destroying space, he replaced it with the golden-section grillwork that formed the cornerstone for abstract art. With his friend Van Doesburg he founded the magazine De Stijl, and, as shown here, spread the gospel of color geometries to Germany, Poland, Belgium, France, England, Scandinavia and the U.S. The most brilliant works of the master are missing, but the evolution of his spatial austerity is easily visible in early works and drawings, its potential for beauty stunningly manifest in such artists as Strzeminski, Vordemberge, Schwitters, Nicholson and others. Through...
...cancer-ridden wife commits suicide. To the fatalistic companion who has listened to Schwarz talk through the long night in Lisbon, the tale later seems reminiscent of an insect embalmed in a flat piece of amber-"the death struggle of a gnat, preserved in a cage of golden tears, while its fellows had frozen or been eaten, and vanished from the face of the earth...
...might be assumed, therefore, that his prizewinning Selected Poems (Knopf; $4) could not be usefully perused without benefit of The Golden Bough, Kierkegaard, or Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Not so. Many of Ran som's gentle verses deal in genteel terms with subjects easily apprehended by the lingering tea-and-antimacassar set in Ransom's own home town of Pulaski, Tenn. His topics run to ceremonious family occasions, chivalric legends, brief encounters between might-have-been lovers, small social events, the death of a boy, even the demise of a child...
...January-as well as have plenty of orchids." But there is much more to it than green-thumb-upmanship. There is the satisfaction of growing or propagating plants for the outdoor garden instead of buying them, of cutting a spray of forsythia in midwinter and "forcing" it into a golden harbinger of spring, of watching a child's pride in his own waist-high plantation, and, not least, of dropping into a city florist's from time to time to check up on the prices. For less than $20, a greenhouse owner can buy enough seedlings to keep...
...this transfigured world, there is delight as well as drama. On a quiet evening, "a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over mountains," a common citizen might see a door across the way fly open, "and out comes Mrs. Babcock without any clothes on, pursued by her naked husband. Over the terrace they go and in at the kitchen door, as passionate and handsome a nymph and satyr as you will find on any wall in Venice...