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Obviously, these early modernists were formalists; what artist, at some level, is not? But their ambitions went beyond that, into the realm of symbolic meaning. This was particularly true of Van Gogh and of Gauguin, who eventually went to Tahiti in order to paint huge allegories of human fate. One sees this interest already in Brittany paintings like Woman in the Hay, an image drenched in anonymous sexuality, whose half-nude peasant woman sprawled on the hay is quoted directly from one of the female slaves in Delacroix's Death of Sardanapalus. These early modernists were not, after...
Americans tune in for pleasure as well as news. Stewart MacKenzie, who heads the American Shortwave Listeners Club, loves the swaying music he hears from Radio Tahiti in the South Pacific. Others simply like to be on top of things. Short-wave fans were among the first to learn of the fire that destroyed the Prinsendam in the Gulf of Alaska last October and were able to follow rescue attempts, as other craft radioed their moves...
...could harbor two or more literal meanings: a glass of absinthe including a drunkard's head, a guitar turning into a torso or a vagina, a bicycle seat becoming a bull's head. Moreover, the ability to handle allegory was the proof of high ambition: Gauguin had gone to Tahiti to paint huge emblems of human fate, not just to see papayas...
DIED. Jon Hall, 66, he-man actor who "was swept to stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for portraying loincloth-clad is landers and bare-chested sheiks (Arabian Nights...
...1950s she was rather like Omai, the noble savage whom Captain Cook brought back from Tahiti to the court of George III. America loved Grandma Moses as the representative of natural virtue-the ambassadress of a past that was al ready being sentimentalized on an industrial scale. Her America of checkered farmhouses, old oaken buckets, barn-raising parties, whirring buggy wheels, and quilting bees was not the America of the Korean War, the TV-quiz scandals, the McCarthy terror and the Detroit assembly lines. But it had been a real place, and Grandma Moses not only knew it well...