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...number of Goyas, the new spaces allow a full sampling of the sentimental and pretentious salon art that the century's avant-garde had to contend againstCabanel's sleekly erotic nudes, Meissonier's bombastic battle scenes, Regnault's slyly erotic-exotic Salome, Rosa Bonheur's huge Horse Fair, Bastien-Lepage's sentimentalized Joan of Arc. Of the 22 Courbets, only 8 had been on view in the past; of the 18 Manets, 10; of the 29 Monets, 12. Many of the Met's 40-odd Rodins had not been seen...
Kingdoms have been lost for want of nails, shoes and horses, but it was not, as legend now has it, a pair of sore feet that spurred the U.S. civil rights movement 24 years ago. Who should know better than Rosa Parks, 64. In December 1955 Parks was a tired Montgomery, Ala., domestic who refused to surrender her seat on a bus to a white man. Her arrest spurred black civil disobedience that helped wipe out segregation laws. Honored last week with a Martin Luther King Jr. Nonviolent Peace Prize, Parks joined hands with Coretta Scott King and former United...
Fashion, in other words, is taken not to exist. But the unpleasant fact is that no reputation is immune to fashion. The art market is built on it. The French cattle painter Rosa Bonheur, a favorite of Victorian merchant princes, got ? 4,059 (then almost $20,000) for her Highland Raid in 1887; in 1952 it was resold for under ?200, or $560. Sir Edward Burne-Jones' Love and the Pilgrim, sold in 1898 for .?5,775 ($28,000), dropped to ?21 ($85) within less than 50 years. If artists who in their day were considered outstanding, whose work...
Burger's Daughter tells how one woman carves out a personal moral vision and finds the conviction and the courage to act on it. It does not preach; it inspires. Rosa decides to return home and make her father's cause her own. She concludes...
Inspiring as Rosa's choice is, Burger's Daughter is not primarily a call to follow her path. Gordimer is far too subtle for that--for her, Rosa's commitment is a "holy mystery," one she penetrates with her imagination, but cannot share. Rosa chooses action, but she accepts suffering and self-denial. Burger's Daughter provokes outrage and fear, and then leaves us hanging, torn between activism and knowledge of its costs