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"Stalinās doctrine of socialist realism had long defined art in the U.S.S.R., and in dance this meant lavish narrative ādrambalets,ā often with socialist themes. Balanchine had pushed classical technique and the human body to new physical extremes especially in his recent plotless dances, āAgonā (1957) and āEpisodesā (1959), performed in simple practice clothes on an empty stage. In the U.S.S.R., such abstraction was still deemed a political threat, a slippery artistic form dangerously free of any fixed meaning that could be approved or censored. (Who could say exactly what āAgonā was about?)."
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Daido Moriyama. Bandaged finger. 1987.
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He isn't quite a eunuch but that's
what he calls himself, this old
two-beat codger on this spring
afternoon picking up the winter's
crop of twigs and bark from the lawn
to make it "look nicer" and to supply
the house with kindling next winter
for himself or his heirs, meanwhile coughing
and gasping, cursing the pain in his back,
thinking always of the days when
each year after the run-off he was in
the woods with the early trout lilies
and violets and with his ax, saw,
and canthook, doing a man's work
that has no connection with sex at all.
Hayden Carruth - April Clean-up +
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Brian Ulrich. Chicago, IL. 2007.
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Trent Davis Bailey. Karen, Hotchkiss, Colorado. 2014.
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Trent Davis Bailey. Compost, Paonia, Colorado. 2015.
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Trent Davis Bailey. Black Canyon, Crawford, Colorado. 2015.
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Terry Graham. Ruth, Whitley Bay, England. 2021.
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The man credited with developing the first workable machine (tank) was Ernest Swinton, who persistently pressed his ideas for āsome armored object, petrol-driven, and caterpillar-mounted, that would squash the nests of German machine guns as boots do those of waspsā.
Roger L. Ransom. Gambling on War: Confidence, Fear, and the Tragedy of the First World War. 2018.
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Genieve Figgis. The Swing After Fragonard. 2014.
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Jo Spence. Libido Uprising. 1989.
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