Word: hermeticism
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When you look at a Watteau fete champetre, an Impressionist boating party or certain Matisses, you are seeing the long-range results of Titian's and Giorgione's invention of the pastoral mode in art: the landscape of pleasure, the earthly paradise derived from Latin literature, with its shepherds, gallants...
TWO THINGS KEPT THE 3.15-ACRE GLASS-AND-STEEL structure called Biosphere 2 from being just another greenhouse: a hermetic seal separating 3,800 species of plants and animals, including four men and four women, from the rest of the planet, and a veneer of scientific legitimacy. The seal has...
His tale of a nation of "zombies" waiting for change makes it hard to gloat over the fall of communism. What he found was a Cuba that still respects Fidel as a well-intentioned grandfather who tried to bring equal rights, education and health to the island but is now...
The uncomfortable truth is that the Guggenheim has been problematic not just for curators but for visitors: the interior could be oppressive and maddeningly hermetic. Now, for the first time, the museum has complexity as well as sheer monomaniacal power. You can still keep to Wright's relentless ramp, but...
Ordinarily, the immediate postmortem period is the time when a composer's music and his reputation go underground with him. Not Messiaen's. Consider, for example, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of the sprawling Turangalila- Symphonie, in a stunning performance by conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Bastille Opera Orchestra...