Word: remus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the word sculpture meant solidity. But their wit lasted. Time and again, one encounters feats of inspired and self-mocking draftsmanship, traced with wire in air: portraits of Jimmy Durante and the shimmying Josephine Baker, or a farouche she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus through six wooden drawer pulls that serve as her teats. Often there is a prophetic note. Calder's motorized sculptures of the '30s predict the kinetic art of the '60s and are fulfilled in such giant works as Universe (1974), in Chicago's Sears Tower...
...fear. Accordingly, in exchange for laundering and woodchopping, they arrange to have the girl educated by a nearby white family. Convinced that Treemonisha's learning is a threat to them, Zodzetrick and his fellow conjurers kidnap her for a night of voodoo-like terror. Rescued by her friend Remus (disguised as a scarecrow), Treemonisha astonishes everyone by urging forgiveness. "You will do evil for evil, if you strike them, you know," she tells her people. They understand and acclaim Treemonisha as their leader...
...Bakshi had any genuine skill as a satirist or draftsman, these spiritual descendants of the Uncle Remus characters might have become participants in the sort of Swiftian drama he apparently intended. There are hints here and there of a desire to demonstrate that black street styles are not stereotypes at all but put-ons. Such disguises can-sometimes-help individuals to get at least some of what they want with out permitting a hostile world to know that they are trying. Bakshi's sensibility is too vulgar for such an exercise. With a newspaper storm breaking around...
...world will have to wait a bit for the first cartoon Kafka. Right now Bakshi is finishing "a homage to the black man" in the form of a collection of Uncle Remus-style tales called Coonskin. As in all animation work, progress is slow because each movement, no matter how imperceptible in the finished product, requires a separate drawing. "We turn out twelve feet of film a week here," says Bakshi, who disdains the larger animation outfits in town that finish a hundred or more feet a week by using fewer drawings per foot and settling for less lively results...
...Mythology. It is a key that the reader should turn for himself. Although interpretations may vary, it seems clear that Blum's puzzling tale has some roots in the basic myths of the twin culture heroes who father new tribes, cities and even heavenly bodies. Romulus and Remus, or Castor and Pollux come first to mind. But in the case of Bear and Black Bear, Blum's biblical symbolism suggests Esau and Jacob. To this are added a dash of psychedelics and some excellent literary effects. In the early pages, the prose has a deadly metallic precision. When...