Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that "nonobjective art claims validity only for its mechanics, for the material with which it is made" rejecting man, his life, his visions, his future, I raise one voice in dissent. In the few directions we were able to look during the 1920s, whether to past cultures or the scientific and social myths of our own, it was sharply clear that in them lay few answers valid for a man of vision...
...week's end Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, new president of the ruling Congress Party, seemed to reverse her father's earlier decision to close India's borders against refugees. Paying tribute to the Dalai Lama (who has reportedly fled Lhasa) as a "man of vision and intelligence." Nehru's daughter promised that any Tibetans fleeing to India would be "granted asylum under international...
...transcended in the individual, the free man. In the freedom of the great plains the story of the West had its beginnings; in the freedom of the heart it seems to seek its end. In its finest expressions, it is an allegory of freedom, a memory and a vision of the deepest meaning of America...
...Vision of Carnage. Hodgson's latest poetry is filled with an old theme: fury at human cruelty to nature, to animals, to the imagination. In most of his uncompleted The Muse and the Mastiff, this theme is put in the mouth of an ancient wild bear, who seldom has a kind word for any other animal. To Hodgson, cruelty seems to be getting worse and worse in the hands of men ("I see such carnage in the future"). As for what may come to the world that he has broodingly watched from his lonely farmhouse for so many years...
...second seeming contradiction is that this work is a startling fusion of primitivism at its most potent, and of high classicism. The two idioms have been blended before by Picasso, but previously this union has been a clear adaptation of the primitive to a European, specifically French vision. This time he unites both without compromise...