Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...least one answer eventually works its way to the surface. To every Cezanne here, there is a vision and a philosophy which might be called epical. The works evoke and perpetrate personality via a willing subservience to canons beyond personality, to classicism in its most unadulterated form. So with the Picasso drawing and Small Composition. Both are dry in the word's complimentary sense. They exult in maximum integrity...
...contemporary scene to Mr. Feiffer can be best beheld from the windows of the Voice--big ones that look out on a wide prospect of Greenwich Avenue. His vision is far from universal: when he is not looking at his urban, liberal, Freudian, cultural (if not always cultured), ostentatiously enlightened milieu, he is looking at other things from its viewpoint. Anyone who belongs to this milieu, or who can temporarily or permanently assimilate into it (which is easy, after a few years at Harvard), will find both books full of old friends sensitively observed and old enemies devastatingly put down...
...century did architects set out more consciously to create their own unique vision of a brave new world than in the 20th century. Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie houses were meant to open on a new democratic vista, where individualism and variety could prevail. In Germany, the Bauhaus scrapped pilaster, pediment and ornaments and created buildings with flat roofs and walls of glass. In France, Le Corbusier prophesied skyscraper cities where man's habitation would be "a machine to live...
Dreamlike Vision. Desmond yammers and rants his life story from within a railway carriage that shuttles between Dundalk and Dublin. He is queer for trains, and, as the scenes seen from the windows unfold and blur into episodes from his raffish life, it is clear that he is queer about a lot of other things, too-notably small steamboats, chaffinches, a girl called Yvette, and an uncle with the improbable name of Melchizedek. Desmond begins his maniacally brilliant reveries after a gaseous bout at the dentist's, where he acquires new crockery, i.e., false teeth, and a desire...
Sight and Insight, by Alexander Eliot. With love and 20/20 vision, an art critic looks at the life of art and the art of life...