Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year he was born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...
...much a revelation to Chagall as to the crowds that last week jammed a specially built pavilion in the Tuileries Gardens to view the panels. He said: "There is the light of the sky in these windows, and the participation of the good Lord. They have completely transformed my vision. They gave me a great shock, made me reflect. I don't know how I shall paint from now on, but I believe something is taking place. I can't say much more because I am still under their influence...
...letter he is found trying to promote a visit to the U.S. of the prestigious Alfred Tennyson. His letter to the poet is curious on three counts. With its evocation of the "seething mass" of America and its "measureless crudity," it gives a prose version of his poetic vision. As such, its effect was only to scare off a poetic grandee, and it showed a naively crude Marxist notion of culture as a "superstructure." The combination of "wealthy incentive, no limit to food, land, money, work, opportunity, smart and industrious citizens" would surely some day be followed by "great ideas...
...necessarily a distant vision. A Brazilian would-be Castro has already appeared. Francisco Juliâo is a Socialist state deputy from Pernambuco and founder of Brazil's mushrooming Peasant Leagues, which are already driving the landowners from their ranches and plantations. The "unknown serra" that Quadros envisions is also a real place. It is the overcrowded, underwatered, sugar and cattle land of the eight northeastern states of Brazil's Atlantic bulge...
...nothing in Hemingway is real, or better, "realistic," neither landscape nor language nor the vision that lies beneath. But, in the best work, it is "true," true in the sense that it coheres in a vivid, living life of its own within the book, and true in serving as an affecting illusion of the way we wish things were. We all wish, decadents that we are, that we could imitate the languid laconic cynicism of Brett and Jake and Bill Gorton; we all wish, stout hearts that we think we are, that we could argue as honestly with ourselves...