Word: symbols
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...titled a canvas The Whiteness of the Whale, an open invitation to connect his work to Melville, who wrote of Moby Dick in a celebrated passage: "But not yet have we solved the incantation of this whiteness...why, as we have seen, it is at once the most meaning symbol of spiritual things, nay, the very veil of the Christian's Deity; and yet should be as it is, the intensifying agent in things the most appalling to mankind." Naturally, to invoke Melville does not make Sam Francis the Melville of painting. Yet his best work sometimes touches...
...would be hard to improve on Crane's choice of a symbol, but one could argue that David McCullough's The Great Bridge, more concrete and less obscure, develops even more powerfully. The Great Bridge is the story of the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. It also illuminates an ora in American history and helps build a myth giving that history meaning. If in pictures did the bridge justice, the book would be complete...
...flurry of interest in the rugged life of Billie Holiday, the supreme jazz singer who died of the cumulative effects of dope and despair in 1959. Brooklyn's Chelsea Theater last week presented a jazz musical called Lady Day that uses Holiday (sung by Cecelia Norfleet) as a symbol of the ravages that racial repression can work. "Seething with anger, this Lady Day misses all that was funny and spunky in the real woman," said TIME'S Drama Critic T.E. Kalem...
...must in their time have seemed very "Japanese," in elaborate contrast to the austerities of Chinese brush technique-helped form the Rimpa style, and were superbly developed by Ogata Korin, born a century after Koetsu. A part of Korin's signature (see calligraph) is now used as the symbol for the Rimpa style...
...former Polaroid employees and members of a national ID watchdog group demonstrated yesterday against Harvard's use of ID cards and attacked the new science center as a "symbol of Polaroid's key support of the apartheid in South Africa...