Word: venusized
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...Their main "strategy" (how the art world loves military lingo!) is "appropriation," or image scavenging, a process somewhat different from the traditional ways in which Western art has always quoted other art. Images have been recycled within the fine-arts tradition almost since art began. The Cnidian Venus turns into a Boucher, an Ingres, a Matisse. Picasso runs 44 variations on Velasquez's Las Meninas. Always, art comes from other art, giving culture a vernacular of recurrent forms, which are reinvested with subtly or sharply different meanings. In this way, the artist connects himself to the living tissue...
...think, is great because it is good for us. But to consider Bach only as a kind of musical chaplain takes no account of the music that has been lost: at least 100 cantatas, many of them secular, as well as a considerable quantity of instrumental music. Like the Venus de Milo, Bach's legacy is a torso that has been taken to stand for the entire work...
...pair of wings that, when spread, span 6 ft. She does not hurtle; she soars. Attracted by the publicity, an American journalist named Jack Walser thinks he may have found another subject for a series he is planning on "Great Humbugs of the World." He interviews the famed "Cockney Venus" in her dressing room after a performance. On the wall hangs a poster of the aerialiste drawn, as the subject coarsely confides, by "some Frog dwarf "; it is signed "Toujours, Toulouse." Fevvers plies the reporter with champagne and assures him, "I never docked via what you might call the normal...
...recently launched two 4.5-ton unmanned space probes laden with cameras and sensors. And in an extraordinary show of East-West scientific collaboration, two U.S.-designed comet-dust analyzers are tucked aboard the Soviet vessels. Named Vega 1 and 2, after the first letters from the Russian words for Venus and Halley, the two craft are scheduled to deliver landing modules to the surface of Venus in June 1985; they will then spin off to rendezvous nine months later within 6,000 miles of Halley...
...from the Aegean coast to the borders of Iran and the Soviet Union, stretches like an ancient weft on which history and legend are tightly knotted. This has a sumptuous effect on his prose: "We were surging through bright water off the promontory of Knidos, to which Praxiteles' Venus once drew all travelers . .. Here were the ramparts of Asia crumbling into a sapphire...