Word: themes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...created a special treat: a series of stained-glass windows for the Art Institute of Chicago. The 8-ft.-high by 30-ft.-wide windows, unveiled this week, are in commemoration of Chagall's friend the late Mayor Richard Daley. As Chagall explains: "Each window has a different theme-dance, architecture, theater, music, poetry and America." The master, who will be 90 on July 7, doesn't mind if his symbols aren't perfectly clear to viewers. After all, says Chagall with a Gallic shrug, "Me, I do not understand Chagall...
...lingering imprint of the past on the present is a theme which haunts David Storey's work. That imprint is evident in the way Storey borrows from his earlier creations in constructing Saville, which uses characters, situations and even dialogue from his play In Celebration. In the play, the three Shaw sons, all upwardly mobile, rejoin their working-class parents for a celebrations which founders on old family conflicts. Saville focuses on a strikingly similar family, exploring the genesis of those conflicts with sensitivity and style...
What's beneath the surface of human behavior is the theme of Collage: A Mime Show, being performed in two weekends at the Ex. In that undefined area between acting and dance, seven pieces by co-directors Kevin Grumback '78 and Elizabeth Pennel '79, each with a twist at the end, aim at presenting the audience with statements about how we view the human situation. In Jungle, the first piece, the apes come out from behind the bars, but it's the audience that ends up feeling caged; in Carnival the amusements turn the tables on those who are being...
...This theme of estrangement, from self and from others, is central to The Idiot. In some songs, the schism is complete. The vision is desolate, but Iggy sings with a knowing irony that rescues the lyrics from irrelevance. "Nightclubbing" manages to be ironic and sincere at once; the vacuous lyrics and monotonous melody, over an intriguing background of piano and synthesizer that creates a suitable cabaret mood, suggest self-ridicule and sorrow...
...China Girl," shows off the richness and flexibility he can achieve. A tinny xylophone riff wraps around the lead guitar in beautiful counterpoint, and the use of electronic media is sensitive and restrained. Carefully punctuated, many-layered, "China Girl" unfolds to a solo guitar fadeout which mimics the beginning theme, in the most cohesive track on the album. As the China Girl soothes him at the end of the song, I began to wonder if she had the secret that Iggy, in the dum dum daze of the Stooges, was looking for all along...