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...Natalia Goncharova's "Grain Harvest"(1908)--the only work of a woman in theexhibit--is a superb example of the "primitivist"folk art. The painting reflects a deliberateattempt at distortion: the trees are blue, anoutline of a cat is painted broadside on the roofof the house, and the geometric regions of intensecolor are startling to say the least. But thesubject of the painting is still traditionalrather than abstract--we see three women hard atwork on the farm...
Baryshniknov is not the first prominent defector to receive feelers from Soviet officials about returning. Last week Ballerina Natalia Makarova got a similar offer from Grigorovich. The Soviets have also approached Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Novelist Vasily Aksyonov and Theater Director Yuri Lyubimov. Grigorovich noted that there is a new "atmosphere of openness" in the Soviet Union. Said he: "We now have a wise leader who is loved by the whole country...
...meeting, sponsored by Harvard Students for Soviet Jewry (HSSJ), the students urged members of the Supreme Soviet to permit Dr. Gennady Khassin, his wife, Natalia, and their two daughters to reunite with their relatives in Israel...
Reichstein said that an attempted filmed interrogation of Gennady on the Hatch letter, a visit from a member of the Supreme Soviet, and the publication of an article in the Moscow Evening News claiming that Natalia was corrupting the minds of Soviet youth, all suggest that the couple may face imminent arrest...
...both books use their respective red objects as gimmicks to tie the photographs together, the snapshots and the snapshooters hail from widely divergent areas of the KodaColor World. Duncan specializes in dance photography, that magic art of dissimulation that turns aging Nuryevs into air-bound youths, or transforms a Natalia Markarova into a Natassia Kinski. These f-stop Michaelangelos glory in sweat, stretches, and lots of straining muscle, and a big hunk of Duncan's photos are devoted to lesser known celebs for the sake of their better built bodies...