Word: navahos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sulking Achilles and wily Odysseus on the state of Sanders Theatre while Anna Freud Coolly described our unconscious lust on the third floor of Emerson Hall. Archibald MacLeish, zen-like, trying to "know" an apple balanced James Watson's discovery of the double helix. Clyde Kluckholn's exploration of Navaho culture and psyche challenged Wassily Leontieff's analysis of economic inputs and outputs...
Under a microscope, it resembles a stylized Navaho rug or the aerial view of a railroad switching yard. Like the grains of sand on a beach, it is made mostly of silicon, next to oxygen the most abundant element on the surface of the earth...
...with Navaho rugs and Spanish furniture...
...contemporary abstract painting has learned from the Indian: a series of high pitched colors and color oppositions, for instance, which are now considered "American" and found in color field painting. Other debts are not visible: Pollock's drip paintings are derived in part not only from the technique of Navaho sand paintings but also from their assigning a role of spiritual expression to the process of painting itself...
...NAVAHO INDIANS use the same word for both grey and brown. The Hopi in their thoughts about events include both space and time; neither is found alone in their world view. Douglas Huebler combines a concept of art with out culture's thoughts about events; neither is found alone in his aesthetic view...