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This is the territory he calls art brut-"raw art." Its landscape includes the gay scribblings of children, the darker grotesqueries of madmen's art and the limitless repertory of graffiti and folk images-naive, threatening, bizarre or just plain corny-that lies between...
...Third World is not simply a political or economic concept but a psychological state, consisting of "madmen," "lovers" and, of course, poets as well as "colored peoples" and ex-colonials. Essayist Paz regards "revolt" as "the form of our age," above all for the Third World. But his notion of revolt, being cultural rather than political, broadly defines itself as the impulse "to give otherness a place in historical life...
...cannot say that innocent people have not suffered at the hands of racists, madmen or drug addicts. But I would like to point out that our community is no different from others all over the world that share problems of race, creed and bigotry. Ninety-nine percent of us Cruzans love our island and wish to share it with others. We are not afraid to stand behind...
...Kepesh the former lit professor who must have the last word. He is full of contempt for the "morons and madmen," anyone who would laugh, gape or exploit him. Nevertheless he feels the urge to lead this uneducated herd to drink from the reservoir of great art. In concluding what is surely the most stylish lecture of his career, he quotes "Archaic Torso of Apollo," by the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke...
...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...