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...they, for example, may practice polygamy while other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard and ever harder, and hold together," he said after his election. It was a sensible formula not only for India's Hindu...
...commanding idea. That idea is the breakdown of language. As he puts it, the "syntheses of understanding which made common speech possible no longer work." Today, Steiner notes, vast domains of meaning are ruled by nonverbal languages such as mathematics or symbolic logic; those who live beyond the veil of science and its mathematical languages inhabit only an "animate fiction...
...first group of mature works, the so-called "veils" and "florals," date from 1954 through 1960. The overlapping washes of transluscent Magna (acrylic) colors on the unsized, white canvas produce a veil-like form whose colors, although rich and sensuous, seem to mystically dematerialize like shifting, almost gaseous, vapors into the texture of the canvas. One wash of color is applied over another, but the transparency allows all the layers to come forward simultaneously. The visual effect is breathtakingly beautiful and bewildering at the same time. As the viewer becomes involved with a specific passage, he feels that...
Nevertheless, Louis derw on contremporary painting for his vocabulary, if not his inspiration. His veil-like clouds of color come from Rothko, and the active Oscillation of spatial structure has precedence in Rothko and in "optical" art as early as Albers...
...China has often hidden the recurring tensions between central government and regions, between Emperor and officialdom or ambitious war lords-and, above all, the sometimes intolerable inner tensions of trying to maintain harmony. As China Scholar Etienne Balazs put it: "The smiling landscape is found to be a veil which, when torn asunder, reveals a craggy vista of precipices and extinct volcanoes, reminiscent of the visions with which most Chinese landscape painters were obsessed...