Word: primordiale
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On the mythic level, the play is more opaque. Two characters seem more like gods than people, gods of the modern mind. Palmer, the psychoanalyst, is the contemporary god of reason, restoring order amid emotional chaos. Honor Klein, the anthropologist, is the primordial goddess of instinct, violence, and what D...
Helicopters & Rubens. It is this attitude that made Rauschenberg a primordial pop artist, and now allows him to transcend pop's implicit danger of banality. He has reopened the question of whether or not artists-after 50 years of peering into the unconscious mind-can again approach the everyday...
Backwards Latin. Rippling across the ivory everywhere are images that summarize early theology. The tusks lend the cross an undulating vitality, repeated in the budding motif of the Garden of Eden's Tree of Life, then supposed to be the material of the original cross of Calvary. Taking these...
General Motors, star of the '39 fair with its revelations of the future, has again attempted to be visionary. Its Futurama is built around the idea that the human population has ample room to explode, and proves the thesis with wonderful models of future machines and future cities in...
Nepal became a stronghold of late Buddhism and its imagery when it retreated from Islam, which swept through India during the 12th century. Sequestered in the Himalayas, the religion existed in one of its headiest forms short of Zen-Tantric Buddhism. Its credo begins with the Adi-Buddha, a primordial...