Word: poeticizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Distortion Is Poetic. Weber had some fairly sympathetic reviews of Paris shows, and that made his reception in the U.S. all the more bitter. Yet Manhattan still cast as strong a spell over him as it did when he first arrived as an immigrant from Russia at the age of ten. He put its terminals and bridges in exploding abstractions-and could give the same sense of excitement to a still life of fruit or a landscape of a road lined with trees. If his female figures seemed heavy, it was because he was concerned with the body...
...preoccupation with spatial harmony and with the distortions he used to achieve it, there was nothing cold or seemingly calculated about Weber's art. "Distortion should be born of a poetic impulse," he said. His war scenes, his paintings of workers, the face of an old rabbi could be cries of pain-as much a "search for fundamentals" as the magic key to design. "Art is the real history of nations," Weber said. "Their politics, their wars, their commerce are but records, as the calendar or the clock is not time itself...
...Japan and China were on the verge of war and hardly in the mood for poetry. But the great Greek Poet-Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis chose that year to make a trip to the Orient. There his poetic values came under heavy bombardment. In this transparently autobiographical novel, as slender in plot as it is rich in philosophy, Kazantzakis records the intellectual combat...
...trying to find a new image of God that would appeal to those outside Christianity, but noted: "When the ordinary Christian speaks of God as being up there, he does not literally mean that God is in a place beyond the bright blue sky. He is putting in poetic language, which is the only serviceable language we have got. that God is supreme. It is utterly wrong and misleading to denounce imagery of God held by Christian men and women . . . and to say that we cannot have any new thought until it is all swept away...
Special Pinnacle. "When I began." Aznavour says, "the radio banned my songs. They didn't want to hear my forbidden words. Nothing is dirty, everything is poetic-but moral hypocrites never admit this. For ten years the ban went on, forbidden, la vérité! Then, five years ago, the pressure of the truth was too much-I was allowed to speak my message: 'Live now, tomorrow who knows...