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...beings so far discovered on this guilty planet had turned to face the 20th century. There was culture shock on both sides. The Tasaday discovered evil; the rest of us discovered good in a form so pure it seemed almost incredible to a civilization that had long since abandoned Rousseau's conception of the Noble Savage. Biblically reminded that "the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked," assured by anthropologists that Homo sapiens is descended from a killer ape, shocked by recent accounts of a primitive Ugandan culture based on sadism (TIME, Nov. 20, 1972), modern...
...world. No wonder Hicks looks so quaint in 1975. For 50 years since his "rediscovery," he has been thought to be the best of all American primitive painters whose works survive from the 19th century-not because he was a great instinctive draftsman like the Douanier Rousseau but because his whole way of imagining the world derives from a hope about human nature that is peculiarly and particularly American. If that view -along with the religious view that supported it-is now nearly as dead as the moon, it remains an aspiration that Americans cherish. Both to celebrate and remind...
...Traveco Mobile Home with mad dog Joe Frasson at the wheel rattling by their VW at 110 mph? Or are they sportsmen and liberators, by their brave example, putting their drivers licenses on the line, trying to get us all out of the prisons we are in? Rousseau noted the motto over the Genoa jails--Libertas--with favor, believing that men who would trample on the rights of others could only know true liberty by forcibly being shown the error of their ways...
...quintessential Danish master is the founder of Dansk, Jens Quistgaard, 55, who still does the original designs for products that are now turned out in factories from Sweden to Japan. He regards the designer's job as one of almost Rousseau-like simplicity. "I believe that as much of nature as possible should be brought into your nest," says Quistgaard. "You should have as much around you as you can to remind you of good craftsmanship...
...story is apocryphal, but it captures the spirit and philosophy of the man honored by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in its current exhibition, The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya. For Goya was molded by the age of Rousseau and Voltaire and the French Revolution--The Age of Reason. For Goya, as well as for his contemporaries, a belief in human reason was the answer to an age of corrupt religion, incompetent monarchy and political turmoil. If Goya's portraits, commissioned as they were by the Spanish aristocracy, show only a glimmer of his belief...