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...Marcel G. Gustin...
There are debts to Max Ernst in the early collages of the '30s, and more subtle references-as in a dialogue between equals-to Marcel Duchamp in the boxes; sometimes Cornell would crack the glass panes that protected his images, in homage to the cracks in Duchamp's Large Glass. But the effect was much more violent, since-in a piece like Habitat Group for a Shooting Gallery, 1943-it suggested the rupture of a sanctuary, an attack upon Eden. The glass pane of Cornell's boxes, the "fourth wall" of his miniature theater, is also...
...pictures have taken on a significance that neither photographer nor model could even have anticipated, and snapshots taken of everyday events have become valuable historical and even literary documents. Marcel Proust, another devotee of the country house, phrased it well when he wrote that "a photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist...
...Sorrow and the Pity (1972). Marcel Ophuls re-examines the ambiguous moral dilemmas of the World War II era in this searing documentary about Occupied France...
...tries to translate the Gospel into the idiom of today, so that "the Bible comes alive and the Christian faith is made believable." One way that Davies makes the Bible come alive during his sermons is by gesturing, mimicking and acting out roles with the skill of a Marcel Marceau. But he finds it "appalling and tragic" that present-day idiom itself sometimes becomes the Gospel, as when "sensitivity training is mistaken for the work of the Holy Spirit." Davies' rich and mostly middle-aged congregation regard him as a star performer and a provocative mind. For his part...