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...interested in "locked" and unified structures than one thinks. The ring of figures in Dance (II), 1909-10, refers back to a long tradition of representations of Bacchanalian dances, from the ancient Greeks through to Poussin. The color is almost as simple and emblematic as that of an Etruscan vase: blue sky, green billowing earth, red flesh inflected with deeper, Indian-red drawing. It could not be more vivid or explicit, or better attuned to the fresco-like scale of the canvas. And yet how provisional these dancers seem, compared with their ancestors; how deliberately imperfect, within the brusque signs...
Imagine the scene. The stage is dark except for a small pool of light at its center. A vase of yellow tulips sits on a small table. A bentwood chair tilts picturesquely to one side...
Price's work, in its terse, witty and episodically lurid sharpness, argues otherwise, and has been doing so for nearly 30 years. To complicate matters, Price plays with traditional forms of useful ceramics such as the cup and the vase without producing a usable object: they become a sort of armature for flights of entirely nonutilitarian fantasy...
...JINX didn't stop there. A few weeks later, a cute senior called to ask me to a fall formal. Carefully I picked out my slinkiest cocktail dress, matching high heels, and a large vase to hold the armload of flowers he would undoubtedly bring...
...however, some daring naturalists are starting to suggest that just as a smashed vase can be pieced back together and a war-torn cathedral reconstructed stone by stone, so too the battered remnants of natural masterpieces -- bogs and fens, forests and prairies, deserts and coral reefs -- may eventually be restored to some semblance of former glory. In at least a few spots around the globe, the dreamers say, humanity may be able to go back to Eden...