Word: harlequins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between 1925 and 1930, Miró tried dozens of different ways to express "the spirit of the thing." Some ornate fantasies, like The Harlequin's Carnival, became popular immediately, but others had to wait decades for their audiences. His 1930 Painting is as elemental and totemic as a mobile by Calder -or any painting that would be turned out by New York's abstract expressionists in the 1950s...
...bullet holes piercing the case on either side of them. The piece seems to ask the question "When?" as the eye canvasses the damage already done and the mind awaits the next bullet from a ghostly sniper. Arman's smashed guitar glued to a board-a requiem for Harlequin-is an effective device to make death real...
...immolation of history," or the tendency of modern man to rebel against his past. The rejection of history, Cox argued, not only throws out the good of tradition with the bad, but "can result in a corrosive contempt for the present." In his third lecture, entitled "Christ the Harlequin"-appropriately accompanied by psychedelic strobe lighting and calliope music-Cox suggested that the church can help bridge the credibility gap between past and present by reviving the "joy, festivity and holy mirth" in religion...
...sacrificing one to the other. Christ has come to previous generations of men in various guises, as teacher, judge, healer. Now, in a new or really an old but recaptured guise, Christ has begun to make an unexpected entrance onto the stage of modern secular life. Enter Christ the harlequin: the symbol of festivity and fantasy in an age which has almost lost both...
Under the general title, "The Secular Search for Religious Experience," Cox's lectures will include "The Immolation of History," "Ecstatics and Visionaries," and "Christ the Harlequin...