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. . . is neither a watcher nor a dreamer. . . does not reflect life , but doesn't escape or withdraw from life either: swallows it. And the imagination won't stop until it's swallowed everything . . . to a world where nothing is outside the human imagination . . . - Northrop Frye

Saturday, November 2, 2002

Midcentury Italian Art That Still Eggs On the Irreverent

"Building deliberately and sometimes inspiredly on precedents like these, the artists of Arte Povera waged an insinuating, provocative, usually elegant assault on art. They came together in one of the last consciously fomented art movements of the 20th century. The term, which means poor or impoverished art ..." [NYTimes:Arts ]

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Raymond Savignac, French Poster Artist, Dies at 94

"Mr. Savignanc defined poster art as "the creation of a fleeting image which people will not forget." [NYTimes:Obits]

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Thoughts, wrote Nietzsche, are shadows of our feelings: always darker, emptier, and simpler than these. And the written word, it strikes me, is but a shadow of our thoughts.

Proust wrote: "The only true voyage of discovery, the only really rejuvenating experience would not be to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees."

"In everyday life 'if' is an evasion, in the theatre 'if' is the truth. In everyday life 'if' is a fiction, in the theatre 'if' is an experiment." Peter Brook -- The Empty Space

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