Word: muralism
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...little while, the Captain and Snowdrop head home. "I'm quitting next week," the Captain says as he pauses on Fourth Street to look at a mural on a tenement wall, an eagle clutching a hypo above the legend in red letters: COME FLY WITH ME FOOL! Just before crossing the Williamsburg Bridge, the Captain spots a young white couple crouching together in the front seat of a Mercedes. The man throws a bloody rag out the window. "They just couldn't wait to get home before shooting up," he tells Snowdrop. She smiles back, still glowing...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $13.95). Jake, a laborer, lives near a town appropriately called Hard Times. Honeybunch is a mule, with a disposition that belies her name. One evening the pair run into a freight train and wind up on the Glory Road to the Pearly Gates. Zemach's mural-like paintings create a midnight world of green pastures, good food and celestial jazz. After the requisite tantrum, even Honeybunch sees the light: the brilliance of the moon and all the stars that Jake hangs up every night for even the poorest sharecroppers-and the smallest readers-to enjoy...
Unlike the Lynds, however, who tried to paint a complete picture, a giant mural with statistics, footnotes and 24 pages of tables, Davis has sought to present only representative portraits, concentrating on a very few people who opened up their lives to an omnipresent camera eye. Davis' crews followed their subjects around for weeks at a time; eventually, he says, they forgot that they were being watched. "Sure, they might be put off for a day or two," he says, "but very soon they would stop thinking about us and get on with their lives. Our crews became like...
What inspires such inventiveness? Something loftier than dollars. Vengeance? Civic duty? It is not surprising to learn that Australia has a subway, being down under, but can that lovely country have possibly reached the stage of mural riot that rapes New Yorkers every rush hour? No. There must be some holy altruism in Mr. Shuttleworth. Unlike other inventors, he is not giving the world what it never had before, he is restoring it to its origins. (One wonders, in fact, if there really is a Mr. Shuttleworth. His name is suspicious; it has a subway...
...means a natural draftsman, and his best paintings of the early '40s, like the She-Wolf or Male and Female, are set down with terrible earnest ness but with no graphic facility. When he set up a repeated frieze of drawn motifs, as in the mural he did for Peggy Guggenheim in 1943, the result-as drawing-was rather monotonous. But when he found he could throw lines of paint in the air, the laws of energy and fluid motion made up for the awkwardness of his fist and, from then on, there was no grace that he could...