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Taken chronologically, the drawings could be read as a footnote to the history of the decay of the Safavi dynasty. Riza joined the royal atelier soon after Shah Abbas ascended the throne. His earliest drawings are delicate, strongly traditional, and faintly wistful, obviously the work of a young prodigy. Later...
If Diderot sounds unjust, it is not simply because the tone of our culture has swung back to a less civilized amorality in which our pornography is brutish. It is because, when the routine conventions of his work are subtracted, Boucher remains a startling and almost great painter. The sensuousness...
THERE GOES RHYMIN' SIMON (Columbia). A lesson in what a wistful, literate and probing composer-singer Paul Simon still is.
Although Claude Lelouch has made more than a dozen movies, he is probably still best known for A Man and a Woman (1966), a nighty piece of soft-focus romance that had a marked influence on the makers of television commercials. This new Lelouch film is also a wistful, rather...
THROUGHOUT this film people say how much they are learning, what great trials they have weathered. But we never learn what it is that everyone is so excited and enlightened about. With this unfortunate handicap, we have trouble feeling convinced when someone has a major life-transforming experience with no...