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Quick, now: which had more influence on abstract art? Picasso or Jakob Bohme? Freud or Annie Besant? The theory of relativity or Robert Fludd's Utriusque cosmi? The answer, as anyone can attest after seeing the opening exhibition, "The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985," in the Los Angeles County Museum's new wing is in each case the latter. The good news, one might say, is that early 20th century abstract art, long regarded by a suspicious public as basically meaningless and without a subject, turns out to have a very distinct and pervasive one -- the last mutation...
Many people have experienced the portrait's strange spell. "This contrast between the splendor of the helmet and the subdued tonality of the face makes one deeply conscious of both the tangible and intangible forces in Rembrandt's world, and of their inseparable inner relationship," Jakob Rosenberg of Harvard wrote in Rembrandt, Life and Work. "As in all his greatest works, one feels here a fusion of the real with the visionary, and this painting, through its inner glow and its deep harmonies, comes closer to the effect of music than to that of the plastic arts...
ILANA'S FORMATIVE YEARS are a bazaar of colorful people and firmly-held yet conflicting beliefs. The politics of her parents and their fellow traveller friends, the mystical stories of her Uncle Jakob, the Christian prety of her father's sister. Aunt Sarah, all make their way to her impressionable yet independent mind. All the passions that have moved people throughout the centuries meet and mix in the nighttime musings of an eight-year old girl and vie with each other for her allegience. Ultimately, and surprisingly, it is Judaism that wins...
...Johnson, 49, expatriate East German novelist whose works examined the social and spiritual consequences of a divided Germany; of a heart attack; in Sheerness, England. After his first novel was rejected in East Germany, Johnson moved to the West in 1959, where his austere, fragmented prose in Speculations About Jakob, The Third Book About Achim and Two Views made him one of postwar Germany's leading creative voices...
...suffocating congestion of the Frankfurt ghetto and embracing a city that 20 years earlier had become the first place in Europe to accept Jews without any legal re trictions. Young Rothschild was as drunk on the future as were the Parisians: abandoned the dietary laws, changed name from Jakob to James - Anglicisms were then in style - and undeterred a brutish appearance and a thick German accent, began his conquest of the Bourse and the glittering salons...