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This is why classical Greek sculpture, in its original form, was so very unlike the version made of it by Neoclassicists 2,000 years later, and recycled in this show. "No symbols or special trappings of divinity," writes Gage, "were required beyond the figure's physical harmony. The most perfect...
Andrew Purvis, who reported a good chunk of this week's cover package on Somalia, may have been destined for his assignment in Africa. When he was a boy, his paternal grandfather, a chemical-company executive, filled his head with great tales about his work and travels throughout the dark...
Superficially, at least, the Aboriginal people of Australia would have struck the Alpine Iceman as primitive. Their stone tools in 3300 B.C. were hardly different from those used in past millenniums and, for that matter, in millenniums to come, right up to the 20th century. Yet the Aborigines were ingeniously...
Q. Isn't it provocative for Inkatha supporters to carry traditional weapons such as spears in public?
De Klerk, moreover, has expressed ambivalence when Zulu war parties known as impis have paraded provocatively through township streets carrying spears and other so-called cultural weapons. Professor David Welsh of the University of Cape Town believes the government is guilty of "gross negligence" for having all but ignored repeated...