Word: woods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author spends about a week each month north of the border, where there is no lack of literary companionship. Novelists Margaret Atwood and Robertson Davies are among his writing friends. Irving has two other homes, one in Vermont and the other from Vermont but in eastern Long Island. The wood-frame structure had been dismantled, transported to Long Island and restored among the summer retreats of the Northeast's most glamorous resort area. "I'm known as the eccentric bastard who moved to the Hamptons and brought his house with him," says Irving, a man who can take satisfaction...
...shape of Italian modernism: a systole and diastole between innovation and tradition. Particularly in the 1950s and '60s, Italian artists had a way of talking raw but painting cooked. In the early '50s, when Alberto Burri began to exhibit his paintings assembled from torn sacks and burnt strips of wood, they looked as leprous as Dubuffets. Today they seem tender, full of regard for discarded things, and about as threatening as sunlight on an old wall; one realizes this was always part of their intent. Even the Italian artists dealing with popular imagery in the early '60s, like Mimmo Rotella...
...inspired by Christian themes is emerging from within a much larger community of folk artisans. The movement is thriving in spite of serious obstacles. Most artists lack patrons, lucrative markets and substantial schooling. With tools, paint and canvas in chronically short supply, Africans work with whatever materials are handy. Wood is thus the most popular medium. If stained glass is too costly, colored resin is applied to windowpanes. If sculptors lack marble, they mix cheap pebbles and concrete. If budgets keep church buildings modest, they are brightened with imaginative decorations and vibrant vestments...
...book is a wry group portrait of four elderly and feisty women who emigrated from China to the U.S., and their grown, very Americanized daughters. "A girl is like a young tree," says one of the stern mothers, who explains to her daughter that she lacks the necessary wood in her character. "You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you . . . But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak." The daughter does not ignore this old- country wisdom, "but I also learned how to let her words blow through...
...With wood, clay, paint and canvas, native artists across the continent are giving their own cultural expression to the themes that have inspired some of the greatest works of the Western tradition: the Nativity, the Madonna, the Crucifixion and the tales of the Bible. The results are vigorous, often passionate, testaments of faith...