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Though Whistler never went to Japan, he was seen as a bridge between East and West, the voracious collector of blue-and-white porcelain who brought a Japanese aesthetic of hints and nuances into late 19th century painting. His abhorrence of narrative, his preference for the exquisitely designed moment over the slice of life, was new; it epitomized the idea of Art for Art's Sake. It was provocative, in 1871, to call a portrait of his mother Arrangement in Grey and Black. It implied that the hallowed sentimentality about motherhood in Victorian England was cultural baggage, that the aesthetic...
...Alain Juppa, "there's always a problem: as soon as he sees a fast-food place, he has to stop the car, rush up to the counter and order a hamburger." (Chirac does have a more sophisticated side-he speaks Russian and is an expert on Chinese poetry and porcelain...
There were other occasions, of course. An evening of dark Bacardi and Southern Comfort, gulped from miniature porcelain teacups in Grays, for example. As a first-year I played a certain House's waltz with a certain orchestra, and when the champagne ran out a certain master offered some of his own stock with the caveat, "Just don't tell anyone where...
...course of time, however, Mozart's physical appearance began to diverge from the world's image of him. It was as though the grown Mozart was quite a different person, one descended from but not identical with a legendary child Mozart. The maturing historical Mozart became the porcelain-child Mozart's double, and the divine child survived his own death." Unable to escape the image that had charmed the courts of Europe when he was a boy, says Solomon, Mozart the man took refuge behind...
This argument may be accurate in theory, but is incredibly naive in reality. Porcelain myth notwithstanding, women being accepted into a final club does not guarantee their financial success. Students must be accepted into the social milieu that final clubs provide. Since many club members do not want to admit women, opening the punch process would have to occur only in grudging response to substantial pressure from the outside...