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...surrounded by books in a northern court. His dreams are the stuff his myth has been made out of: Venetian splendour, glittering women coming towards him, or running coquettishly away. But in his dream he dances with only one lady, on a frozen Grand Canal under the Rialto; the porcelain doll and Casanova revolve to the music of his golden cock, in a world made only of illusion, creations of self-conscious...
Three exhibits at the Mseum of the American China Trade in Milton are: Chinese Snuff Bottles; Wassail Vessels from China; and Chinese Export Porcelain: A Guide for Collectors (Tuesday-Friday...
Algernon's clipped witticisms and Miss Prism's agonized confrontation with her own carelessness are the two high points of this production. But its real star is Joe Mobilia's sets, whose every detail--from the porcelain tea service to the yellow silk upholstered sofa--elegantly evokes late victorian decadence...
People can also be objects--and one of the fascinations of these pictures is the way they reduce dancers, puppetteers, and personalities to dolls, porcelain and bright. Cosindas' trip to Greece in 1960 started her career as a creative photographer, but she has come a long way from the conception of drama that "Greek Lady, 1959" shows. Her recent portraits have left black and white tragedy for what seems a puppet stage. Her precisely-composed arrangements disconcert. A personage like Vionnet may be thought of in terms of pure design, color, fashion and grooming, but it somehow reduces Imogen Cunningham...
...poems, nostalgic poems, cynical about the dregs of like poems, ethnic tales, and dreams. Like any publication, there are failures, but most of these words-put-together share successfully what Roberts' opening editorial calls "an attempt to liberate black from the confines of its sound, to bury stereotypes in porcelain blankets, where they belong, to move freedom past the dissolvement of exterior to the cultivation of interior--where differences multiply and thrive...