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Their gods were Manet, Daumier, Goya and Hals; among Americans, Homer and Eakins. None were more direct than Bellows, who in the peak years of his youth became the entranced recorder of New York, the "real" city of tough mudlarking kids, of crowded tenements and teeming icy streets, of big bridges and sudden breaks in the wall of buildings that revealed tugboats and a dragging tide...
Tanned and trim at 63, Fuentes proves an amiable and erudite video guide, equally at ease critiquing a painting by Goya, sipping coffee in a smoky tango club in Buenos Aires, or pointing out the erotic audacity of the Spanish torerillos ("Where else can the male strike such provocative poses except in the bull ring...
...such works Lautrec comes close to his idols Daumier and Goya. He would not generalize; every figure acquires a specific energy, and each countenance is its own face, not merely a mask of passion or a symbol of social role. A little bareback rider's squinched-up face above the massive, churning crupper of a stallion in the Cirque Fernando, 1887-88; the Cyrano nose and signature black gloves of Yvette Guilbert; the weird cadaverous prancing of Valentin the Boneless -- these images live on as obdurately as the traits of Dickens' characters...
...house on Shelter Island, off New York's Long Island. In between his books and art criticism, he enjoys such hobbies as carpentry and deep-sea fishing. Though he has by no means become bored with the art scene (his next book will be on the painter Goya), Hughes admits a growing passion for history and social issues. "Generally speaking," he says, "the real world interests me more than the art world." Happily, writing for TIME gives him an opportunity to keep an eye on both...
...ordinary agendas and desires that, in a saner polity, would be seen as ideologically neutral, an extension of rights implied in the Constitution. American feminism has a large repressive fringe, self- caricaturing and often abysmally trivial, like the academic thought police who recently managed to get a reproduction of Goya's Naked Maja removed from a classroom at Pennsylvania State University; it has its loonies who regard all sex with men, even with consent, as a politicized form of rape. But does this in any way devalue the immense shared desire of millions of American women to claim the right...