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A retrospective exhibit these last few weeks at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris—perhaps too generously big an undertaking—has allowed a wider public to appreciate the originality and importance of…
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Édouard Roditi
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1963
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After the many marks of encouragement bestowed on me by a generous publick, I thought that I could not better evince my gratitude for such favours, than by disseminating to as wide an extent, and at…
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Daniel Mendoza
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1789
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They have given you French names
and made you captive, my rugged
troublesome compatriots;
your splendid beards, are epicene,
plaster white
and your angers
unclothed with Palestinian hills quite lost…
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Irving Layton
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Montreal, Canada
Date:
1956
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Café Sport is another scene. A scene, because that is where the artists and intellectuals go to be seen. Taking part is what matters, not winning. It is like sport, which is where the café got its…
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Elfriede Jelinek
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Reinbek, West Germany
(Vienna, Austria)
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1980
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Many years later, in London, Father was once again revealed to me in that long-ago evening in Ramat Poriya, sitting on the fence with the Kinnereth lying like a carcass behind him, but this time the…
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Haim Be’er
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1998
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Dramatic poem by Angiolo Orvieto
Music by Giacomo Orefice
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Angiolo Orvieto
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Florence, Kingdom of Italy
(Florence, Italy)
Date:
1905
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A. Leopold,
It would appear from your letter that you do not believe that art is a factor in civilization and progress. You are not the only one. One might agree with you that up to now no statue or…
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Sh. Yanovsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1906
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The world is full of armies.
But that is not what will kill us.
Béla Balázs
If there is culture today, it can only be an aesthetic culture. If one wants to raise seriously the question whether there…
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Georg Lukács
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Budapest, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Budapest, Hungary)
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1910
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It is not enough to see a statue. A statue has to be sensed with the fingertips. In our imagination we touch the statue, caress it, examine its rounded and hollow surfaces, and by doing so our sense…
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Ḥaim Gamzu
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1957
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I am exceedingly green: chill green.
What have I to do
with all the greenishness of chance?
I am the green-source, the green-self,
one and incomparable.
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Dan Pagis
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1970