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...unquestionably weird, but the artist has used shape and color, especially the dead black of ravens, horse and drooping leaves, in an abstract way that was admired by painter Paul Gauguin. Eventually, Rousseau was adopted by an avant-garde circle that also included the young painter Pablo Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire. They nicknamed him Le Douanier (the customs man), and traded untrustworthy anecdotes about his gullibility. "These were artists chucking the rule book away," says Morris. "They saw in him an artist who couldn't subscribe to the rule book." In Rousseau's own tall tales...
...diffidence and cynicism. Yet in one lightning flash, he had diagnosed the national exhaustion that a dead-end war brings and proved that antiwar fervor could change voters' minds. This was not so much political strategy as the almost theological mission of the amateur philosopher and published poet McCarthy was. Lines from his poem "Vietnam Message" could be the words of Gandhi or Pablo Neruda: "We will take our napalm and flame throwers/ out of the land that scarcely knows the use of matches .../ We will leave you your small joys/ and smaller troubles...
...with nephrite yellow and brown markings—a wine vessel from the early eighteenth century—portrays the yin and yang relationship, with images of the dragon and phoenix on opposite sides. In another handscroll, from the seventeenth century, “The Twelve Zodiac Animals as Poets,” animals are used to reflect cultural symbols. Animals from the traditional Chinese zodiac are satirically dressed in elaborate garments like the stoic Asian poet. The poetry of these famous poets was entered into competitions at the imperial court; simultaneously portraits were erected to depict the authors...
...communism is the leitmotif of postwar Europe until 1989, and Judt takes some choice shots at Western intellectuals enamored by the experiment in "real existing Socialism" playing out inside the Iron Curtain. "I come from a country where no one laughs any more, where no one sings," French poet Paul Eluard told an audience in Bucharest in 1948. "But you have discovered the sunshine of happiness." At the time, an estimated 1 million Romanians were imprisoned in dire conditions or engaged in often deadly slave labor, digging out the Danube-Black Sea Canal. But Judt also gives the intellectuals credit...
...People's Theater, who was acknowledged by many--including her husband Ralph Ellison--to be a key editor and adviser on his 1952 masterpiece, Invisible Man; in New York City. The couple, who were married from 1946 until his death in 1994, met after Fanny told a mutual friend, poet Langston Hughes, that she wanted to meet a man with an interest in books...