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...priests, that was a rocky challenge. They swarmed into Barcelona-many of them wearing zippered windbreakers over their cassocks and roaring in on motorcycles-to challenge the Archbishop on his home ground. To that extent, the clear, Catalán distortion of Joan Miró was more appropriate than Goya. But more than anything, the priests were reflecting the alienation that exists in Spain between age and ambition, between the liberal principles of the Vatican and the rigidity of the Spanish Catholic hierarchy, which automatically aligns itself with the state...
...flower in the textured murals that are sumptuously spread through these pages with such fidelity that the beholder wants to touch them. The book's first three sections explore the history of tapestry weaving, a history still being written by those-among them Lurçat, at and Miró-who have revived this ancient art. The fourth and last section, by François Tabard, master weaver at Aubusson in France, explains the techniques...
Mere Mockery. Under arrest was Andrei D. Sinyavsky, 40, a ranking literary critic for the "liberal" magazine Novy Mir. Though Sinyavsky is known in the West as a supporter of the late Boris Pasternak and has penned essays on Picasso and Robert Frost, his delicate style just did not seem to fit. Tertz writes with a heavy undercurrent of Jewish Weltschmerz, Sinyavsky with a gentle wit reflecting his Russian Orthodox background...
...building is the penthouse where the bachelor baron, as head of the house of Lambert, lives alone. Broad reception halls and dining rooms convert from business luncheons at noon to formal dinners at night. Strolling through suites studded with Giacometti's lean bronzes, through rooms where Picassos and Mirós alter nate with Bonnards and Rouaults into his big library, the baron likes to wink roguishly as he touches a hidden button that causes the book-lined wall to swing back, revealing a glass-sheathed bedroom with a sweeping view of Brussels. "It even has a James Bond...
...windows; the brilliant light of Provence streams through filters in the ceiling. "I had a holy horror," says Maeght, "of trying to look at a painting streaked by rays of the sun." So that visitors may "wash their eyes" between, say, a room of Braques and a room of Mirós, spacious views open out onto a grassy patio or a lily-padded pool. Blending all these delightful and special touches into a bold structure that wholly integrates architecture with painting and sculpture was Catalonian Architect José Luis Sert, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design...