Word: metaphors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refusals to be incorporated into the rational--Mailer's themes began to appear with clarity: man is primitive and mystical, the human psyche does not only contain multitudes of indenters, but uses those opposites as a dialectical mode of trying to discover new ways of acting. Indeed, the original metaphor of war held true for most regions of human personality, and Mailer, instead of avoiding such turmoil, would become a protypical 20th century American and seek out all such battles. Boxing became a useful metaphor, and he used it seriously...
MAILER also has Monroe "winning her films," but the metaphor of the boxer wears thin by the end of the book. Perhaps the most insight is offered in the section on the making of The Misfits, which coincided with Monroe's breakup with Arthur Miller. Mailer here is able to offer his most credible insights into the nature of Miller's attraction to the uneducated woman and, hers to him in his failure to deal with her consumptive insecurity, congenital lateness, and the cancerous dependence on sleeping pills. Mailer also offers convincing testimony that the key to this insecurity...
...triumph of that certezza that was the goal of high Renaissance planning. When arguing that the ideal church plan should be circular-"the most proper figure to show the unity, infinite essence, uniformity and justice of God"-Palladio echoed a longstanding Renaissance fascination with absolute geometric shapes as metaphor. His purism was extreme. It is strange, for instance, to find an architect in 16th century Venice, a contemporary of Veronese (who frescoed the Barbaro villa), objecting to murals in churches-"Among all colors none is more suitable to temples than white; by reason that the purity of this color...
...think it means? Of course it's not any one thing, that wreck. An idea, an image like that works like a pebble thrown into water, rippling out into concentric circles. When you create an image with poetry, you can't do anything about it. Poetry is a metaphor, which doesn't mean that it isn't true or that it's a game. It's a very serious matter. In my own poetry, the personal becomes a metaphor for the public, and the public for the private. One thing reinforces another, and it's all a part...
SINCE ITS INVENTION by the Cubists early in this century, collage has served as a sharp metaphor for what the modern artist in any field must accomplish. In the twentieth century, to be an artist means to assemble available bits and pieces into a new order. The show of collages by Robert Motherwell now at the Museum of Fine Arts demonstrates the progress of the medium under the hands of one its most skillful practitioners since Picasso. Motherwell's collages, like those of the Cubists or of Kurt Schwitters, attempt to bring a new kind of immediate reality back into...