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...Knesset combines the rough-hewn and informal with the grandiose. The legislative chamber, in which the 120 Knesset members most four days a week, contains simple beige swivel chairs arranged in concentric half-circles behind long curved desks. The ceiling is high and majestic, but the wall is carved in an abstract relief symbolizing peace; an incomplete circle represents the city of Jerusalem which was still split by barbed wire when this new seat of government was constructed...
...traditional romantic-realistic style; in Manhattan. Soyer, whose twin brother Raphael and younger brother Isaac are also artists, came to the U.S. with his family when he was twelve. He received much of his early formal art training on Manhattan's Lower East Side, where rough-hewn street people served as his models. A diminutive man with large gentle eyes, Soyer was well known for his portrait of Fellow Artist Jack Levine and for The Green Room, a painting of three women. He resisted the pull of abstraction that drew many of his contemporaries, and stuck doggedly with...
Much of the charm of the new Haggadah comes from full-page watercolors by Artist Leonard Baskin, better known for his prints and sculpture. In a rough-hewn but softly hued departure from his other, often starker work, Baskin evokes many of the familiar Passover figures -the paschal lamb, Pharaoh, the plagues, and the prophet Elijah...
...shapes and sizes was spread out in metallic tapestries--pipes, nails, hammers, funnels, axles, wire, hinges--all irregular and worn, many rusted and cracked. Again, mostly women were sitting behind the wares. The women sell, the men haul. Seated behind a small collection of knives made of rough-hewn steel and handles whittled from eucalyptus branches, a woman chatted away with a friend who carried a bag, on her way to buy some rice or vegetables for lunch. As she talked the seated woman smoothed out the shiny folds of her yellow skirt, long and puffy in the traditional manner...
Survival Shelf. The splendid set pieces of the book explain the intricate classic art of building a log cabin, notch by hand-hewn notch, the principles of stone chimney construction, the shingles split from the white oak log with wedges, go-devil, maul and froe. And how to feed up, slaughter, dress out, pepper cure, smoke, cook and eat a hog, with two opinions about what one does with the ears, which are gristly. Not to mention a dissertation on moonshining as a fine art-by men who practiced it well...