Word: poeticizing
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...Resist...Resist the insurance of professorships ... Perform ... be tough ... Move beyond urban anxiety to the next era, our era ... Now is the time for art to lead man." If there are times when poetic manifestos are needed, this is one of them, and Dey has made himself a man of the moment. But I really don't know whether poets will sift out Dey's commitment from the quirks of his style. As manifestos should be, "On the Spot" is daring and cranky; depending on how you look at it, though, its manner can be so self-consciously elevated that...
...pigment-print portraits that Steichen made of himself and his friends, reworking the image with eraser and fingers, seem like deliberate homages to Whistler. The melting halftones, the silvery highlights and atmospheric blurs (he would spit on the lens, or kick the tripod as the shutter clicked) are a poetic reprise of Impressionism, and one finds him cropping the image in imitation of Degas's paintings-themselves influenced by the arbitrary croppings of earlier photographs...
Hindu philosophy has long attracted Western minds. The poetic thought of the Upanishads helped nurture the 19th century American transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. But it was only in 1893, when a charismatic young man named Swami Vivekananda came to the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, that Hinduism first put down roots in the West. The message the swami brought was Vedanta Hinduism, a classical Hindu school revived and refined by the 19th century Hindu mystic, Ramakrishna...
Bergman Films. Persona (1966) is an extremely complex, psychologically sophisticated work about a mute actress who is accompanied by a young nurse to an empty house on the sea where the two, in a sense, merge or change identities. A work of poetic images that can be appreciated on many levels, it may be Bergman's best film. The Passion of Anna (1969) is also very good, and The Touch (1971)--well, what could you expect from Bergman and Elliot Gould...
...taking his place in American society, but there is a difference in tradition and in the social memory which gives to both blacks and whites their distinctiveness." The great beauty of the blues is partly that it is not a constant caterwauling of social protest but the lucid and poetic presentation of a shared lifestyle and sensibility...