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...prompting of the Cleveland Museum (where the show goes in 1976, before opening in Paris next fall), the English art historian Hugh Honour has assembled some 340 works of art related to America, chiefly from European collections, in every medium from printer's ink to porcelain. Honour has also written the catalogue and a much longer study, The New Golden Land. In depth and details, with an unfailing subtlety and tartness of argument, his exhibition sets out to illuminate one of the most intriguing subjects in the history of art: how European artists responded to the bewildering and distant...
Decline of Taste. A quarter of the paintings in the show and most of the craft objects-porcelain, lacquer, carvings, metalwork-were made after 1853, when Commodore Perry sailed into Edo Bay like some astronaut landing on an unvisited planet. This marked the beginning of Japan's cultural infatuation with things Western and, by no coincidence, of the decline of traditional Japanese taste. The aesthetic slippage of the Meiji period could not be more vividly illustrated than by the objects chosen for this show. To take an English simile, if Queen Elizabeth II authorized an exhibition from the royal...
...elegant house in Saigon, workmen filled wooden crates with the wealthy businessman's handsome collection of ancient stone carvings, antique porcelain and paintings. The art treasures were going to Singapore, but the owner and his wife, unlike many of their moneyed peers, had not found a way to follow them. Neither his government nor his American friends nor his contacts in the Cholon underworld had been able to help...
...irony of her victory is that in many ways, Margaret Thatcher seems to be Ted Heath's female Doppelgänger. Although her garden party hats and porcelain-voweled laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath...
Clay is an exhibit of works by undergraduates, done at the Radcliffe Pottery Studio, now on show in the second floor exhibition area at Hilles. The stuff is good--especially the porcelain by Namhi Wagner. But the exhibit is spotty. For example, I've never really been able to get into ceramic feet (with pink toenails yet) with clam shells between the toes. The show's purpose is to get people to sign up for classes at the pottery studio, and it doesn't stand on its own, the way the group showing last spring in Hilles...