Word: goya
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...black, was drafted into the Vietnam War and assigned to write for the Southern Cross, a newspaper for infantrymen. Thirty years later, the artillery fire still echoes in his work. In "Ia Drang Valley," a slender, striking war poem both lyrical and blunt, a soldier dreams himself into a Goya painting of a firing squad: "I stand/ before the bright rifles,/ nailed to the moment." Komunyakaa's other great theme is race, and not just his own. In "Quatrains for Ishi" he follows a Native American from his capture on the California frontier to his interment in San Francisco...
...Shore; the TV series takes its place with his 1981 series (and companion volume) The Shock of the New. Now that he has brought off the feat of writing a whole magazine, what does Hughes have in mind for the future? Well, he's thinking about a book on Goya--but he's in no hurry to get to it. "The donkey," he says, "needs to graze a while after dragging such a load up such a hill." All of us who have worked with him on this issue know that the climb has been steep and hard...
...cartoon history by Stefan Kanfer, a former TIME film critic and senior editor. (The book is published by Scribner, which, oddly enough, has no cartoon division.) From the Jones, Canemaker and Kanfer works emerges a picture of the industry that might have been painted not by Disney but by Goya. It's compelling and instructive, and it ain't pretty...
Though Tiepolo worked nearly all his life in Venice, he spent his last eight years in Madrid, at the court of the enlightened, relatively liberal monarch Carlos III, who would later be Goya's first royal patron. Tiepolo's influence completely pervades Goya's early work, particularly the tapestry designs in the Prado, and it continues in the late work. The title page of Goya's Caprichos, that famous image of a dreaming man around whose head owls and bats and other monsters of the unconscious are flitting, is clearly derived from the frontispiece to Tiepolo's Scherzi di Fantasia...
Many of those collections rank among the best in the America if not the world, and have given Harvard museums the status they currently enjoy. From Europe, the Fogg logs over 60,000 prints, including over 300 by Durer, 200 by Rembrandt and another 300 by Goya. Its watercolors by Blake are unrivaled outside England, while its drawings from Gericault and David are the most comprehensive collections outside France...