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...consequence the exhibition of 80 paintings made over the past five years by peasant workers in Huhsien county, Shensi province, which just opened at the Brooklyn Museum and will travel to San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston throughout 1978, is not only interesting but instructive. These bright-colored, Volk-ish scenes of collective labor, with their clear and pretty patterns, are, in fact, like posters a prime form of political instruction in China. As the catalogue remarks, they exemplify "the abolition of the distinction between manual workers and brain workers." How complete this erasure has been the show makes...
...Neill modeled on his own father. Con dwells on Wellington's praise of his combat heroics as Tyrone dwells on Edwin Booth's praise of his acting. Both men are united in a fear of the poverty of Ireland and a desire to conceal their peasant origins. Both loathe the modern currents of their times. Melody despises the Jacksonian rabble just as Tyrone reviles such (to him) modern playwrights as Strindberg and Ibsen...
...most Egyptians the Nile still rules, and a peasant from pharaonic days would find life little altered along much of the riverbank today: land is still divided into tiny plots, and the precious water is still raised from the river by having a cow or blind-folded water buffalo turn a primitive screw or a crude wooden lift balanced by a weight of mud. The ordinary meal of an Egyptian fellah still consists of foul beans; moulekieh, a soup made of the greens that grow among cotton plants, is a dish reserved for special days...
...protests against the authority of the church in favor of the individual conscience. She subverts the authority of the feudal aristocracy by proclaiming the supremacy of the nation-state. It is the love of democracy, not the love of God, which binds Joan's commoner-soldiers to the peasant-saint. It is the fear of democracy, not the fear of God, which Joan puts into the hearts of the lords temporal and spiritual...
...woman, Louise Nevelson. Nobody is more recognizable: the fine, blade-nosed Aztec face with its monstrous false eyelashes, like clumps of mink, is as manifestly the property of an artist as Picasso's monkey mask. The sight of Nevelson under full sail-mole-colored hunting cap, peasant flounces, Chinese brocade and wolfskin, bronze pendants clanking, boar's teeth rattling-is one of the few spectacles of complete self-possession in American life; the 19th century poet who walked his live lobster on a ribbon outside the Ritz could not have looked more remarkable...