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...task, on the face of it, is impossible: to epitomize this vast field of visual culture, across four millenniums, with a mere 475 objects--ink paintings and calligraphy, porcelain and jade, lacquer and bronze. And yet it works, for three reasons. The first is the often sublime beauty of the objects. The second is the coherence of its frame: everything comes from the Chinese imperial collections as they developed over the centuries; thus what we see is the slowly changing profile of the highest court taste. And the third is that the museum's 650-page tome of a catalog...
Jade and bronze were the quintessential materials of archaic Chinese art, but ink and paper made it possible to run an empire on documents, and they replaced the stylus by the 2nd century A.D. It is notoriously difficult for Westerners to "get" Chinese calligraphy for the obvious reason that we can't read it and so can only admire it, more or less ignorantly, as abstract brush drawing. And yet its range of expressive power comes through marvelously in this show. At one extreme we see the almost chiseled formality of the 12th century Emperor Hui Tsung's script, with...
PARIS: The French government announced sweeping changes to its health care system as part of an ongoing effort to reform a social safety net that is close to drowing in red ink. The system, which provides the French with health care, retirement pensions and child support for the poor, is running a deficit expected to reach $9 billion this year. "Something had to be changed," TIME's Bruce Crumley says. "The population is getting older so there are fewer people paying into the system. Between now and 2005 the system will break down unless there are significant changes...
Corot was much better at trees than people, let alone pagan divinities. His weakest drawings are of the figure, his strongest of vegetable nature--one especially, an ink drawing of creepers on a rock done around 1827, has a wiry inquisitorial line and a fierce truth to the motif that remind one, without exaggeration, of Durer. In landscape his hand roamed free, giving the foreground hill in Volterra, the Citadel, 1834, a lively splotching of indeterminate dark scrub whose excited marks carry more visual weight than the distant hill town. But his early portraits are maladroit Ingres...
...must say, in case Harvard administrators are not aware: a handbook and a web page cannot possibly solve problems which are rooted so deeply in ideology, problems which are more serious than my ink cartridge breaking or my CDs skipping. I can look those problems up in a handbook, but I refuse to do so with race relations...