Word: lincoln
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...President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated...
...commemorating political heroes had largely dried up, and there was no enthusiasm for history painting. Landscape held center stage. Then as now, Americans were incurious about their own history; they were fixated on the future. The sense of commemoration would hardly revive until after the murder of Abraham Lincoln in 1865. Lincoln's death seems to mark the point at which Americans began to feel a public emotion that, in their pride at their newness and possibility, they had not felt before. It was nostalgia, a sense of irretrievable loss. Some writers and painters, at least, began to sense...
Perhaps the most interesting painter to reflect this mood was John Frederick Peto (1854-1907), who specialized in eye-fooling, hypernaturalistic still life. In his work, the image of the martyred Lincoln recurs frequently, to the point of obsession, usually taking the form of a daguerreotype pinned to the board or pushed under a tape. Peto was praised for what Americans traditionally liked, skill and illusionistic power (How the hell did he do that?). But his deeper anxiety and the hints of an imperiled social order, reflected in the entropy of his objects, were lost on viewers...
Tony Blair is like Bill Clinton [WORLD, April 28]? What's next? Will Blair borrow the fund-raising Lincoln bed for the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street? DICK MASON Orange, Conn...
DIED. BOB DEVANEY, 82, pre-eminent coach in college football in the early 1970s when he led the University of Nebraska to back-to-back national titles; in Lincoln, Neb. His wisecracking style and plump, rumpled figure sometimes made rivals underestimate him. But he never coached a losing season during 11 years with the Cornhuskers...