Word: symbolisme
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Working twelve hours a day, Argentina's new President Eduardo Lonardi last week set about the orderly launching of his own administration and dismantling of the police-state trappings and symbolism of the discredited Perón regime.
La Tauromaquia continues the theme of war and the dark figure of the bull dominates these drawings. In two of the works Goya describes how man has fought this dark creature from time immemorial. In another, he shows that when the bull gets loose he massacres people in the stands...
Of all Goya's works, the Proverbios or Disparities (nonsense), which were completed immediately following the Disasters of War, remain of special interest to admirers of the artist's work. Harrassed by royal authorities for the frankness of his earlier prints, he undertook these etchings, which he dedicated to the...
But another new work was disastrously pretentious, a complex, often embarrassing brouhaha of heavy symbolism, mythology and sex. It told the story of Greek mythology's Tiresias, who begins as a man, is transformed into a woman, then back again. Inexplicable characters dashed in and out of the ballet...
In America, established at Princeton University as lecturer in the humanities, Mann carried on the fight against "Europe's Dark Age." He wrote polemic pamphlets, lectured with a certain dry sententiousness, and broadcast to Germany. His books were translated and were bestsellers. It did not seem to matter that...