Word: hang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Metropolitan Museum has selected the best of thousands of paintings done in the realist partner for its exhibition. Many people still prefer to hang a well-painted country scene on their wall than a stark unacceptable abstract work. Satisfying, but unimaginative representations of American life are bought every day from dimly lit galleries all over the country. And painters like Andrew Wveth continue to see the world with knife-like clarity in a modernizing of the nineteenth century American method. Though many realist painters exist and taste for nineteenth century art prevails over much of the country, today's realism...
...best paintings hang at the end of the exhibition in the last work of the nineteenth century when artists like Eakins, Whistler. Homer and Sargent work with full new techniques of realism. In one haunting canvas by Eakins, surgeons in business suits cut into a man's leg. Scarcely visible in the dark background, a hall of students observe the operation. The quiet bloody hands makes it difficult to stare at this intense description. Sargent has an equally striking work of four girls arranged on a wide space of a dark room. The smallest sits, paused in playing with...
...also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal to hang on to. Fuck you. And you. And you. And you. In this book, the words are not meant as a challenge, or a threat, or a command. They are the only words a black man can scream out once he has stopped his whoring to the white world, once...
...hotel lobbies are festooned with his picture, always in the inevitable heroic poses: addressing workers, receiving peasants in the Kremlin, studying hard as a boy, consoling his mother after his brother's execution by the Czar, trudging off through the snow to Siberian exile. Across Moscow streets hang bright banners with somewhat less than pithy inscriptions. Sample: LET'S IMPLEMENT LENIN'S IDEAS IN OUR LIVES...
...disgustingly dirty station, where a large percentage of the most undesirable subway riders hang out when they're not riding the trains. I almost got locked in there with a homosexual one night after I had jumped on the last train of the night, but one which was heading in the wrong direction I got off that night at Shawmut and waited for a train which I hoped might come. Some guy came down and told me he didn't usually check the place, but that night he decided to, and you've got to leave...