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THE CHIAROSCURO CHAPARRAL.
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How the Old Masters were hooked on crags and cliffs!
Just give them a proscenium cave, a ruined arch or grotto, how they prefigured Hollywood with their peaks and bluffs! Death Valley - into the Western rides the bandit Tintoretto, heading for the badlands with his painterly desperadoes, mad to depict quick-draw aristocrats and gangster monks blasting it out forever in last stands for a lost cause, or brawling in a bar room, all of them drunk as skunks. "The Renaissance and the West: Causality and Stereotype" - there's a doctoral thesis in that, even an adjunct professorship. Machiavelli plays the bullying sheriff with his tinpot star, Cinemascope skies are whiplashed with thunderclaps, a Botticelli barmaid and a Bronzino gunslinger escape, the street shoot-out is pure Uccello San Romano war.
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THE CHIAROSCURO CHAPARRAL.
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How the Old Masters were hooked on crags and cliffs!
Just give them a proscenium cave, a ruined arch or grotto, how they prefigured Hollywood with their peaks and bluffs! Death Valley - into the Western rides the bandit Tintoretto, heading for the badlands with his painterly desperadoes, mad to depict quick-draw aristocrats and gangster monks blasting it out forever in last stands for a lost cause, or brawling in a bar room, all of them drunk as skunks. "The Renaissance and the West: Causality and Stereotype" - there's a doctoral thesis in that, even an adjunct professorship. Machiavelli plays the bullying sheriff with his tinpot star, Cinemascope skies are whiplashed with thunderclaps, a Botticelli barmaid and a Bronzino gunslinger escape, the street shoot-out is pure Uccello San Romano war.
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Painting by Euphrosyne Doxiadis
Published by The Aegean Center Press
Published in by 1985 by Dedalus Presss
Published in by 1985 by Dedalus Presss
Published in by 1985 by Dedalus Presss
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