Word: pre-columbian
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...rich, image-decked style make this chronicle more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path of those who would compete with the Evangelists. He speaks through the mouth of one of his characters, a scholar who has studied the case of Manuel...
...footstool in the shape of a kneeling woman, a dog-shaped bowl, and African, American Indian and South Sea Island idols by the score comprised a wild little dream world within the Fine Arts' staid galleries of European pictures. Most exciting finds were the small gold ornaments from pre-Columbian...
...PRE-COLUMBIAN ART, by S. K. Lothrop, et al. A stunning collection of aboriginal American art, beautifully photographed, mostly in color. From handsome Mexican pottery to Aztec masks and Peruvian textile designs, the emphasis is on useful or ceremonial art that frequently achieves high reaches of imagination and workmanship...
...enough artist to bridge the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, and the 15th and 20th centuries. Most of his easel pictures -society portraits, nightclub nudes and tourist bouquets-are likely to pass away like grass now that Rivera is gone. The Indian museum-temple that he built to house his pre-Columbian collection will doubtless remain one of architecture's more intriguing curiosities. His murals are his lasting monument. Provocative at worst, or blatantly propagandistic for Communism (as in the case of the destroyed apotheosis of Lenin painted for Manhattan's RCA Building), they are enormously revealing at best...
...thorniest personalities. A huge, suave, slow-moving, spherical creature with great sophistication and prodigious energy, he made a practice of overwhelming women-and all opponents but the last. The rich enjoyed him as a comradely collector and bon vivant (he left a million-dollar estate plus a collection of pre-Columbian Indian art worth as much again). Beggars revered him as a man who courteously pressed folding money into their outstretched hands. Communist leaders kept booting him out of the party for insubordination and then taking him back because he was too voluble, intense and eloquent a liar to forfeit...