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...mood and history. This arrangement succeeds admirably in the difficult task of unifying an exhibit which includes artists of very different periods, outlooks and media. Ranging from European to American artists, Renaissance to modern works, the show includes such notable pieces as a 15th-century German Printed book with woodcut illustrations. Canaletto's Imaginary View of Padua and Joseph Stella's Study for the Brooklyn Bridge...
...especially striking woodcut, "Things American," by Gerd Arntz, is a decidedly unflattering representation of a hypocritical America. It depicts a lynched Black man, a row of "bathing beauties," and a Ford production line in simple, heavy lines and basic colors. The juxtaposition of the three images is, to say the least, a biting commentary on the morality of our culture...
...Minutius. The skill and beauty of the Aldine editions of illustrated works like the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili fostered an unsurpassed quality in Venetian woodblock cutting. Indeed, Titian's twelve-sheet print The Submersion of Pharaoh's Army in the Red tonal vigor and grandeur of notation, is to woodcut what the Sistine Chapel is to fresco...
...stark, hospital-green set. Montgomery delivers Jackson's graphic descriptions of horrific war scenes in a voice which goes flat whenever his emotions threaten to take over. His face becomes an artistic canvas, simultaneously evoking the moral desolation of a Hopper cityscape and the pain of a Munch woodcut. His continual taking of breathmints suggests that nothing can serve as a palliative for getting the horrible taste out of his heart and soul...
...world is not going directly to ruin has led to one of the main reasons for the archive's success: historical pictures add a depth of understanding to current events. Explains Bettmann: "Why show students protesting at Berkeley? Everyone's seen that. We've got a woodcut of Yale students rioting a hundred years ago. That tells you something...