Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...than a rigid measure by which we attempt to deduce the nature of reality regardless of our personal inclinations. Although, of course, the nature of human experience is such that objective truth will always remain elusive, we do have the choice to try to approach such truth as our ideal, rather than reject than reject it as inexpedient. If we do not hold the truth as sacred but instead choose to sacrifice it for ends we believe to be essential, then two inevitable questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that...
...says an FBI official. "You have to investigate multiple tracks at the same time." Eventually, with luck, the pieces start coming together. "Some of it is misinformation, some of it is disinformation," says Jenkins, "and some small portion is information. You have to sort all that out. In the ideal situation, these paths begin to converge. You get a chain of physical evidence that takes you all the way from the debris back to the perpetrator...
...this exhibition is to see why Charles Baudelaire, reviewing the Paris Salon of 1845, placed Daumier, as a draftsman, in the company of Ingres and Delacroix. He was, of course, different from both. Unlike Ingres, Daumier wasn't interested in ideal form or perfect "Greek" contour, even though classical prototypes inform his work -- how far, one can easily judge from his scenes of refugees straggling across an open landscape, which bear a distinct relation to the friezes on Trajan's Column, known to him from engravings. He loved to guy the sacred Antique, but it was the kind of satire...
...Currier House were a woman, she would be big and ugly. And the river houses would be over the hill," says Chung. "But North House would be ideal. She looks good, she's very classy, she has good physical attributes...
What if the country were ruled by this elite; the country's leaders elected only by those educated in policy issues? The result would be an enlightened and politically heterogeneous aristocracy. That word has negative overtones. However, aristocracy literally means "the rule of the best," an ideal that democracy cannot hope to approach...