Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grains during an average season. These grains, carried by winds, can travel up to 400 miles -- even out to sea, where they can bedevil sufferers seeking relief aboard a cruise ship. Other places once considered havens because of less airborne pollen -- Tucson and Phoenix, for example -- are no longer ideal. Immigrants from other regions have brought their lawns, bushes and mulberry trees with them, making both the desert and pollen counts bloom...
...anesthetized to him by his progeny -- the horde of slick, sentimental "classic" sculptors whose white memorials populate every 19th century graveyard in Europe. The basic reason is that Canova's assumptions about what sculpture ought to be and do, based on his total, adoring immersion in the ideal of the Antique, are lost to us; try as we may, we cannot feel the reverence for it that he did. For Canova, the Antique was a truth mine. He visited every ancient site in Italy he could get to -- Naples, Paestum, the newly excavated sites of Pompeii and Herculaneum; his connections...
...almost from the start of his career, with a formidable talent for organizing the softness of flesh, the bulges and hollows of the body, the movement of windblown cloth into the live whiteness of the granular, crystalline, semitranslucent stone. Canova's desire to imitate Greek statuary by fusing the Ideal with the Real translates into a high degree of abstraction in the physical details of his sculpture -- smooth limbs with no warts, wrinkles or blemishes, and elaborate transitions that lead your eye around the figure or the group. The garland of six linked arms in The Three Graces, the largest...
...everything Canova did was on this level; how could it have been? He was an extremely fashionable artist, and he paid the price of fashion: his superrefined style slid into mannered performance and self-repetition, abundantly represented in the Museo Correr by a gallery of ideal heads. No matter. If this show gives its visitors even a few reasons for looking at the best of Canova without prejudice, it will have done its job; the signs are that...
...complaint was fashionable. The ruling elite saw office as an end in itself, wrote the educator Horace Mann. For those men, he said, the question was "Where can I be -- not what can I be." Jackson shared the public's disdain for this complacency and championed the frontiersman's ideal, the equicompetence of most men to most tasks. Like Perot, Jackson had wide support in all sections of the country (which sets both men apart from most third- party candidates, who have essentially represented various extremes...