Word: pedanticism
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In his time, the Dutch artist Maurits Cornelis Escher seemed a cultural anomaly. He loathed modern art-"I consider 60% of the artists nuts and fakes," he said of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum-and was duly ignored by it. For most of his working life, critics dismissed him as...
However, Sheed can't seem to write a book review lacking some artful penetration. His Couples piece shows him at his best: his careful analysis of formal structure as it supports textual meaning; his defense of those meanings by the literalness of their exposition and their felt impact; his statement...
Something Personal. There was a lot of impressionism in Vuillard, for he enjoyed what the older painters liked: the panoply of color in a new-minted atmosphere. But pattern was the core of his work, most dramatically in the 1890s, when he produced a run of paintings, including some remarkable...
Fine Mimicry. It does, and he does. It turns out that the lady is far from unwilling, since she has a bad case of middle-age milgrims herself, and her pedantic husband is a desultory bedmate. From that time on, Luke has power and fate in the palm of his...
U.S. hopes for the Paris talks will now rest on William J. Porter, the highly skilled career diplomat who is expected to succeed Bruce. Porter, who has been U.S. ambassador to South Korea since 1967, is relatively unknown outside diplomatic circles. But behind a bland, pedantic appearance, he is a...