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  Patrick White - Existential Explorer
Patrick White was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973, the Swedish Academy's commendation referred to the author's epic and psychological narrative art as having introduced a new continent into literature.
White's "Australianness" and commitment to the continent are nevertheless generally recognized in the sense that his return brought true colours back to his palette and, in The Aunt's Story (1947), introduced a new style into his canon, initiating novels of depth and dedication.
Voss's (and White's) Australia is a country of infinite distances, unimaginable age and mystery, and the grandeur of this mental landscape is set off against the complacent mediocrity of the masses huddled in the coastal cities.
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 Crucifixion
The Crucifixion, Konrad von Soest, 1404 or 1414.
Crucifixion with the Virgin and Mary Magdalene, Lorenzo Pécheux, c 1800.
Crucifixion and Pelicans (symbol of sacrifice), William Morris, stainedglassphotography.com.
www.textweek.com /art/crucifixion.htm   (800 words)

  
 Broken Continuities: "Night" and "White Crucifixion"
Rather, in the chaotic world of White Crucifixion all are unredeemed, caught in a vortex of destruction binding crucified victim and modern martyr.
Crucifixion indicts, for in its shadow we are always the guilty bystander.
Crucifixion, be it the cross of Jesus or the nocturnal Golgotha of Auschwitz, breaks the moral continuities by which we have considered ourselves secure and whole.
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 Crucifixion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Also, prior to Jesus' crucifixion, in the Roman territory of Judea, criminals and rebels were put to death by crucifixion, and documents suggest that the cross used was a Y shape.
Crucifixion was common method of punishment in Egypt however unlike other areas it was done by cutting the opposite limbs of a person and using the palm tree as a stake according to "Die Sprache Der Pharaonen Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch, a concise Egyptian-German dictionary" [2].
Jesus of Nazareth: the best-known victim of crucifixion in history, Jesus Christ, was condemned to crucifixion (most likely in AD 29) by Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crucifixion   (4458 words)

  
 Crucifixion
The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew (Caravaggio) - The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, 1607, is a painting by the Italian master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610).
Crucifixion - Crucifixion is an ancient method of execution, where the victim was tied or nailed to a large wooden cross and left to hang there until dead.
The White Crucifixion - The White Crucifixion is a painting by Marc Chagall.
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 from jesus to christ: jesus many faces: crucifixion
At the beginning of the summer of 1968 a team of archaeologists under the direction of V. aferis discovered four cave-tombs at Giv'at ha-Mivtar (Ras el-Masaref), which is just north of Jerusalem near Mount Scopus and immediately west of the road to Nablus.
The crucifixion of Josephus' acquaintance who survived should not be projected to the crucifixion of Jesus.
The crucifixion of Jesus, who did not possess a gladiator's physique and stamina, did not commence but culminated when he was nailed to the cross.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/jesus/crucifixion.html   (1205 words)

  
 A Cry in the Darkness
This is further reinforced by the whiteness of the woman's dress, and we feel acutely her impact on his troubled mind.
In White Crucifixion it is also the dominant colour, contrasting with small patches of brightness (particularly the flames of fire) that give life and balance to the composition.
In White Crucifixion he might also be the prophet Elijah whose presence was awaited at each Passover meal as the one who would bring news of the Messiah and the promise of freedom.
www.helwys.com /ministry/godartseeingart.html   (4514 words)

  
 Science replays the crucifixion - Science - MSNBC.com
For "Quest for Truth: The Crucifixion," a TV documentary premiering on Easter Sunday on the National Geographic Channel, Reed conducted an experiment with a volunteer tied to an actual cross.
The case of Jehohanan told archaeologists several things: The feet of crucifixion victims really were nailed to crosses, and the fact that the hand bones showed no similar signs of damage indicated that the victims' hands were not necessarily nailed.
The re-creation of Jesus' crucifixion led Reed and his colleagues to conclude that the reality was almost certainly different from the portrayals in Renaissance masterworks.
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 village voice > news > Clear and Present Danger by James Ridgeway
The senator seized on White's lone and reluctant dissent from the execution of a cop killer, who shot three officers and a sheriff's wife.
White wrote that even though the jury rejected the killer's claim of insanity, there must have been something wrong with the man.
Ashcroft's "marathon public crucifixion" of White caused African American Gentry Trotter, an Ashcroft fundraiser, to resign from the senator's campaign, and so galvanized fl voters in Missouri that they voted for Carnahan, even in death.
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 Commonweal - A review of religion, politics and culture
His 1912 Calvary is at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and his White Crucifixion hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago.
While Jewish reaction to Chagall’s crucifixion scenes, during and immediately after the war, generally accepted his crucifixion motif as a nonmessianic symbol of Jewish martyrdom and suffering, his later work remains more controversial.
This combination was an acceptable one within a Christian context, in which Isaac was a prefiguration of Christ and the sacrifice a prophecy of the crucifixion.
www.commonwealmagazine.org /article.php3?id_article=843   (2763 words)

  
 crucifixion — Infoplease.com
Crucifixion was probably at first a modification of hanging on a tree or impaling on a pole, and from such a connection come the synonyms
Most ancient sources describe the cross Jesus died on as a Latin cross, the type most common in the liturgy of the West.
It was common practice among the Romans to scourge the prisoner and to require him to carry his cross to the place of crucifixion.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0814148.html   (248 words)

  
 Ellen G. White ® Estate: The Official Ellen White ® Website
Nearly all currently printed books by Ellen White are included on this new CD title.
This selection of chapters from Ellen G. White's classic The Desire of Ages, concentrates on the last few hours of Jesus Christ's vital ministry of salvation to planet earth.
In vision Ellen White was shown the crucifixion scene that Christ suffered.
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For Marc Chagall, it was The White Crucifixion.
But what makes The White Crucifixion so startling was that it was painted by a Jew.
The white and gray tones of the overall painting make all the more disturbing the bursts of color as refugees flee aboard a boat or on foot, attempting to rescue sacred scrolls, or merely themselves, from the onslaught of terror.
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 Jesus in Jewish Art - Jews for Jesus
In works of the past quarter of a century...the Crucifixion can hardly be said to stand explicitly for the martyrdom of the Jews...
But when he places a Crucifixion in the background of his Jacob's Ladder or Creation of Man, at Nice, he is inviting the spectator to read his iconography as Christian fulfillment of Jewish foreshadowing.
This is also the reason he portrayed the Madonna and Child [in the Isaiah tapestry] in the corner of the prophecy Christians relate to the birth of Jesus.
www.jewsforjesus.org /publications/issues/4_5/jesusinart   (2924 words)

  
 eBay - the crucifixion, Prints, Religions, Spirituality items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The Crucifixion of Jesus - A Forensic Inquiry - Zugibe
The Crucifixion of Philip Strong by Charles M Sheldon
The White Crucifixion canvas repro frame by Chagall
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 Religion/Spiritualism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
When Christianity is explored, the results are not as traditional and realistic as in the past.
In the upper left, Grunewald's traditional Northern Renaissance painting of the Crucifixion is based on Biblical accounts.
Chagall's White Crucifixion shows Jesus as a Jewish martyr, while Francis Bacon's Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion takes an extremely abstract approach.
personal.ecu.edu /pylypiwd/spirit.htm   (89 words)

  
 Witness & Legacy - Contemporary Art about the Holocaust
Marc Chagall's White Crucifixion, a response to Kristallnacht — "The Night of Broken Glass," remains the icon among many paintings that described Jewish suffering before l939.
Like early Christian artists who tried to imagine the Crucifixion of Jesus, contemporary artists are trying to artistically convey the horror and memory of the Holocaust.
The study of the Kabbala, with its focus on positive and negative attributes, white and fl, forces of light and darkness, produces in her installation works a dialectic of words that cannot but impel the viewer to question his own values and prejudices.
sunsite.utk.edu /neighborhoods/witness/essays/feinstein/feinstein.html   (7238 words)

  
 TIME.com: Magical Modernist -- Aug. 25, 2003 -- Page 2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
By the late 1930s, in paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign for the escalating pain of European Jews.
But even in the face of calamity, he went on making love scenes, colored sometimes by the knowledge that man is a beast in all senses.
In 1939, one year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which a woman uses her blue fan to deflect the ardor of a goat-ass who is but also is not Shakespeare's comic Bottom.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,476413-2,00.html   (427 words)

  
 Asher Lev and Christian Art - Arts and Faith
It's been a long time since I last read this book - but "Brooklyn Crucifixion" isn't entirely original.
Yeah, his nod to the White Crucifixion is one of the bolder parallels Potok draws between Lev and Chagall.
To be fair, Chagall is mentioned once or twice in the book by Asher's community as a negative example of a Jewish artist, so he is always looming there in the background.
artsandfaith.com /index.php?showtopic=11627   (374 words)

  
 -- Beliefnet.com
Ricardo Montalban mellifluously narrates the Latin American segment, which opens with a view of the mountaintop Jesus statue of Rio de Janiero and closes with a graphic, anatomically correct close-up of the Sacred Heart.
Works from the African continent do not appear at all, though African American representations of Jesus are addressed later in the show.
In attempting to cover as many styles as possible, the show suffers from a few incongruous juxtapositions.
www.beliefnet.com /story/74/story_7467_2.html   (224 words)

  
 Marc Chagall,
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But nothing that Chagall painted sings and moves like his homage to the Jewish Theater, which takes hold of you at the start of the tour, teasing you of great things to come.  “Jewish Theater, Dance” is enthralling.  “Jewish Theater, The Wedding Table,” appearing as almost an animation.
Painted in 1938, Chagall’s famous way of offering a center subject, with multiple vignettes revolving around the borders of the theme, anti-Semitism, simply knocks you off of your feet.  In Chagall’s “White Crucifixion,” no one comes out on the other side, but stays in a permanent purgatory on the springboard to hell.
The moment of true communion with Marc Chagall the man, however, came when I betook the beauty of his Bible paintings.
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The ladder in Chagall's "White Crucifixion" (Murphy) 6.
This is the only interpretation of the painting that I have read.
It reproduces several preliminary sketches and crucifixions by Chagall in which the ladder also figures (notably *Golgotha* [1912] in which a man carries the ladder toward?
www.h-net.msu.edu /~judaic/digests/1996-05-23   (700 words)

  
 Speaking of Faith | The Jewish Roots of the Christian Story
Marcus is an author and Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke Divinity School.
View Albrecht Durer's series of woodcuts, the Small Passion, depicting the stages of Jesus Christ's crucifixion.
View an enlarged image of Marc Chagall's 1938 painting mentioned by Joel Marcus.
speakingoffaith.publicradio.org /programs/jewishroots   (153 words)

  
 MyJewishLearning.com - Culture: Overview: What Is Jewish Art?
The major events of the 20th-century for the Jewish people--World War II and the Holocaust and the birth of the modern State of Israel--had lasting effects on Jewish art in the Diaspora.
Numerous works, such as Chagall's "White Crucifixion," attempt to deal with the pain and devastation of the Holocaust.
Many Jewish-American artists--such as Ben Shahn and Leonard Baskin--created an art intended for a general audience with clear Jewish content.
www.myjewishlearning.com /culture/Art/TO_ArtOverview.htm   (715 words)

  
 All About Jewish Theatre - Magical Modernist : Marc Chagall .
Crucifixion but in versions in which Christ is plainly an executed Jew, his
paintings like White Crucifixion, Chagall used Golgotha as a sign for the
year after White Crucifixion, he completed Midsummer Night's Dream, in which
www.jewish-theatre.com /visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=186   (918 words)

  
 Phil Stoltzfus: "Imaging Suffering, Imaging Christ"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
  All of our traditional images in the West give us a Christ, whether sweet or bitter, that is very white and very European—a Christ who is, ultimately, a Roman, an oppressor, indeed, why not the Holy Roman Emperor himself, as Hans Memling did in
“White Crucifixion” of 1938, gives us a Jewish Jesus.
last startling image from the Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco, a Mexican Christ, who has clearly suffered from the wounds of crucifixion, jumps down off the cross, grabs and axe, and chops the cross down.
www.stolaf.edu /people/stoltzp/Talks/ImagingSuffering.htm   (1657 words)

  
 Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series - Calendar of Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
What is the role of art in depicting atrocity?
Certainly many visual forms of war, rape, crucifixion have appeared in the past and continue so be made.
The lecture will explore the evolution of images from Chagall's White Crucifixion of 1939 to Zbigniew Libera's Lego Concentration Camp.
www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/holocaust/2000/calendar.html   (1029 words)

  
 7th Grade - Chagall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
What might Stalin have liked and disliked about Soldiers?
Marc Chagall White Crucifixion 1938 Oil on canvas
How do the materials used to create White Crucifixion reflect the changes in Chagall's financial status?
www.sonic.net /~scds/teachers/cole/7/chagall.htm   (94 words)

  
 The White Crucifixion By Chagall
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Calvary By Chagall -- A brilliantly colorful Chagall on the crucifixion of Christ.
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