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...stare without cognizance of the centuries that have passed since they toppled into the jungle. But most of Mexico's ancient art is less monumental and more familiar: everyday household utensils and ritual objects decorated with leaves and tendrils; pots, statuary, and tools in the shape of animals; terra-cotta fertility idols whose swollen thighs and exaggerated pubic regions are pocket guarantees of good crops. Perhaps the highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made...
...typical hour last week, radioed dispatches told the grim tale. Terra Rica: "Fires have destroyed the whole region." Santa Fé: "Incalculable material losses." Ipiranga: "The people are desperate." Curiúva: "35 dead, 60 treated in the medical center, 106 houses destroyed, 901 refugees." In Natingui, where 23 died, terrified town-folk described a "huge ball of flame about 100 meters around" that leaped suddenly out of the forest, landing on two homes at once...
Maldarelli sometimes worked in terra cotta, plaster, limestone or wood, but his favorite material was marble. With it, he said, "you can play a chisel as a musician plays an instrument." It was while he was working on a piece of fine marble one day in January that a heart attack struck him dead-an artist due, like many another, to win greater fame after death than he ever knew while alive...
...Bontecou, a blonde loft-waif of Lower Manhattan, used to do terra-cotta animals, turned to something called "soot drawings" while on a Fulbright in Rome, five years ago started making little boxes of metal rods with canvas sides stitched on with copper wire, treated with sizing for tautness, scorched with a blowtorch for blackness. From there, the elaborate wall structures grew. "I wanted to get sculpture off the floor-sculptures standing on the floor, they don't have anything to do with anything; they're so heavy and, well, I just wanted to get them...
...19th century, when Britannia ruled the waves, its terra firma was unquestionably governed by the ruling classes. Though Britain today is a comparatively egalitarian society, most Englishmen are convinced that the country is still run by the Establishment, a tight little coterie of Top People who, by most definitions, include the leaders of the Tory party, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the editor of the Times, a scattering of Oxbridge dons, industrialists, financial mandarins, senior civil servants and a few fashionable hostesses...