Word: inge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this does not deny that some artists can illustrate "be-ing" in their paintings. In the catalogue, White gives the example of Rembrandt's Bathsheba that Kenneth Clark describes in his book, The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form; the viewer considers Bathsheba's thoughts transcending the moment depicted, "and yet these thoughts are indissolubly part of her body." Here is the gist of be-ing without clothes: "the presence of thought that vitalizes the whole human being...
White's argument is well suited in the words of his catalogue, but by itself the exhibit does not give us enough evidence to determine what "be-ing" is, or even enough information to excite the question "what is be-ing?" From the single quote placed in the exhibition, one tends to feel that White's concept of "be-ing" is simplistic, which is proven the contrary in his catalogue...
Although it's understandable that White is drawing plans rather than constructing "be-ing" in this exhibit, what could have been illustrated more effectively is the differentiation between "nude," "naked," and "be-ing without clothes"-the last of which for White is "ultimately neither nude nor naked...
...ing] money and material aid to candidates and groups... either through covert means or openly through the distribution of 'pork-barrel' projects...
...ADDITION to defending human goodness in his poems, Blake also expressed, what was for his day, radical anger at the Church and the Government's role in preventing and exploit-ing man's godhead. Ginsberg does full justice to Blake's original poems in a lilting barricades-style song of "The Grey Monk" and a slow funeral dirge of "London...