Word: icarus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live in the ego-rarefied air of the master artists and the lone eagles. Daedalus flew but Icarus fell-so it is with Ibsen and his Nora...
...paintings, their sign language and visual shorthand. His imagination was fenced with ironies and ambiguities. The grand manner had no place in it. An early etching, Hero with a Wing, 1905, is typical. It belongs to the sardonic world of absurd theater-a parody of a classical statue, failed Icarus with a broken arm and a wooden leg, brandishing his one frayed wing like a plucked and grumpy rooster. Other artists of Klee's time, a Bonnard or a Matisse, could and did summon up with a few brush strokes a whole universe of specific experiences-the golden, fuzzy...
...wonder if this admission will become part of Baba scripture. Considering the supreme importance Baba and his followers placed on the speaking of the Word, saying that Baba's weakness was his failure to speak it is something like saying that the weakness of wax-winger Icarus was that he flew too near...
...take on the cop, capitalism and the Establishment. He can, says Wahl, even murder without guilt. Many revolutionaries suffer from searing feelings of inadequacy, Wahl adds, and therefore have a greater-than-ordinary need for notoriety. Supporting this view, De Paul University Psychologist Thomas Milburn speaks of the "Icarus complex" among many terrorists?"even though you fall to earth, you've tried one spectacular thing...
...Take Icarus by Breughel, for example (Auden did). Do we like it for its mythological content or for its rendering of the scene, or for what mixture of the two? Do we like it because we are able to tell our museum date some background information or because there is something ineffably beautiful about the green waves? Our familiarity with Art History or Edith Hamilton's Greck. Mythology may get in the way of our aesthetic vision...