Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett, with photographs by Evelyn Hofer. This elegant union of literate text and lavish pictures should be a staple on Hibernian coffee tables for years to come...
...Portraits of Mao are everywhere: in every home, on every wall, every train, every truck, every car, every bicycle, in every hotel room. My bed at the Tung Fang Hotel, the only place where foreigners can stay, was topped by a huge portrait of Mao with eyes that follow you all over the room. On another wall was a framed quotation of the Chairman's in a facsimile of his own handwriting. At one point I was the only Western visitor in Canton, and I sat alone in the huge baronial dining room of the hotel, faced...
...Chinese, whose largest city, Canton, has for the past two months been the main arena of struggle between those promoting Mao Tse-tung's Cultural Revolution and those opposing it. Cantonese wall posters and the tales of travelers coming out to nearby Hong Kong have painted a lurid portrait of a city racked by the clash of armies and awash in internecine blood...
Employing a purposely florid Victorian style, Friedensohn has painted a series of pictures that re-create the crime, diagram the paths of the bullets entering the body, offer a stiff-necked portrait gallery of the prisoner's-or possibly the victim's-family. Inaccurate and overwrought newspaper accounts of the murder are evoked by distorted and double-image pictures of it (one on a giant television screen). Doctors presiding at the operating table are shown poised over the body like apostles at the Last Supper. "Assassination," explains Friedensohn. "is like patricide, deicide. It provokes a religious...
...Fare's kinetics, David Tamelas' 20-ft-high minimal cubes, and poppish plastic nudes by Juan Carlos di Stefano so obscene that one local official threatened to expel them. Poland's Tadeus Kantor shows that the Iron Curtain has long since popped wide open with his portrait collage of a stuffed shirt (with shirt). France's Baldaccini Cesar took another of the ten minor prizes with his sculptures of Mobil Oil cans and plastic. He disdained it, snorting "Ask Pablo [Picasso], or Sartre, or Fidel Castro. They will tell you whether I should be insulted...