Word: motifs
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...Tower. Nor were they meant to reveal spectacular oddities; there are no extreme closeups, wrenching details or aerial views in Atget, and the lens of his old-fashioned camera was always pitched at the height of a small man. Consistently, his work declares that anyone might have seen this motif, this sight...
...thing in itself, conveyed in the most subtly pictorial manner. His photo of an apple tree in a bare winter field, circa 1898, has a wild, precise intensity whose only parallel, in painting, must be the apple trees painted by Mondrian as a young man. When he photographed a motif a second or third time (as he often did, sometimes decades apart), the images, of village houses in Châtenay or trees in the park at St.-Cloud, each announces its specific qualities of light, reflection, time of day, angle of sight. Atget knew, as the impressionists knew, that...
Beneath the entertaining detective-chase motif, however, lurks the shadow of the seemier aspects of art acquisition. Even Hoving cannot help but allude to that most popular of methods of removing a piece from the bosom of its native country--smuggling. Harry Sperling, "The world's leading expert in arranging that almost any work of art you've seen, any place in the world, suddenly turns up safe and sound in Switzerland, eminently exportable to the United States," explains his technique to Hoving, a quick study...
...park is being built around an old World War II Navy landing strip eight miles from Daytona Beach. It will eventually have 2,000 units, including houses and condominiums, plus commercial hangars for apartment dwellers with no access to the taxiways. Many air parks try to maintain the airborne motif throughout the community. At Colorado's 40-home Erie Air Park, near Boulder, the local restaurant is in a converted Convair 990 jetliner, and the "parking lot" out front is actually a taxiway where customers can roll up in their small planes...
...were hardly unique in their view of the king as a father. Images of England as an unjust parent appear repeatedly in the pamphlet literature of the period, and influential works like John Dickinson's "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" rely heavily on the America-as-wronged-child motif. Such metaphors served to remind Americans, in easily acessible terms, of the harshness of the British rejection. As Dickinson wrote. "The parent company...drew to herself the benefits she might reasonably expect, and preserved to her children the blessings, on which those benefits were founded"--a message sure to move...