Word: mud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which she lived was the home of nearly 25,000 people, a mixture of comfortable houses and rickety slums near Sidon on Lebanon's southern coast. The fierce battle fought there during the Israeli invasion reduced the camp to piles of tangled steel, broken concrete and seas of mud. Protests a resident: "It's a place for animals, not human beings...
...looks more like a concentration camp than a refugee sanctuary. A barren mud flat smaller than a football field, it was originally designed to hold 800 people. Today it is home to more than 1,900 listless Vietnamese "land people," who singly or in family groups bribed their way across Cambodia, which is still occupied by 160,000 Vietnamese troops. Jumbled together inside 27 tents, the refugees each have a coffin-size sliver of space, 6 ft. by 3 ft., in which to rest and sleep. Living conditions for new arrivals are even more crowded: they are housed...
...evidenced by Vanishing Breed (New York Graphic Society; 144 pages; $29.95). More than 100 evocative photographs catch ranch hands and horses in landscapes where the Old West and the new one jostle for position: an AM-FM portable rests on a chuck wagon; pickup trucks wait outside wilderness taverns; mud-and blood-spattered rodeo riders hanker after Stetsoned girls who put Vaseline on their teeth to enhance their smiles. William Albert Allard's pictures catch it all, with a unique mixture of regard and regret...
...light is now coming up in Cambridge, and by my calculations that means the sun is just going down in Mauritania. I wonder if she is thinking about home. It must seem very far away. I wonder if it seems strange to her as she lies in her mud hut in some little village as the sun finally settles, that somewhere thousands of miles across the sand and the ocean. New England is just waking up, and life goes on as usual...
...painting in it: straight and plate. The straight paintings-pigment on canvas-are the weaker and look like nth-generation abstract expressionism, which, in fact, they are. Their grid and curlicues come out of Matisse via Richard Diebenkorn, suffering indignities in translation: the drawing is sloppy, the color mud. There are also some steals from Robert Motherwell, in the form of maps of Europe with overpainting. Such work is homage rendered as cliché; but then Schnabel's reputation rests more on his plate paintings, layer on layer of broken crockery combined with things like antlers and twigs...