By Guy Davenport
Within the forty essays that represent this assortment, man Davenport, certainly one of America's significant literary critics, elucidates quite a number literary historical past, encompassing literature, paintings, philosophy and track, from the ancients to the grand outdated males of modernism.
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This idea seems to have been precipitated from a painting by the Russian Pavel Tchelitchew. Williams met him in 1942 and saw the massive canvas called "Phenomena" in progress. This painting is iconographically a Temptation of St. Anthony, with monsters of all sorts, monsters which, as Dr. Williams, a pediatrician, observed t o the painter, are all teratologically exact. Williams saw the point, and took away with him the courage to write about the decay of an American city as the gradual 50 The Geography of the Imagination metamorphosis of humanity into monstrosity.
Two more lines: septum and mouth, at right angles, et voila! There is a hairdo, probably plaits. Is it a woman? If not, our Cave Man shaved. This George Price janitress (or god, or demon) is something we literally cannot see. We d o not know if it is ugly o r handsome, caricature or pious icon, male or female. It is Alley Oop by Alley Oop. And from it we can deduce an artist, a chisel, a mallet, and an audience that liked t o look at pictures. But Mr. 5 days it repeats its dramatic metamorphosis from dark to sickle to circle t o sickle t o dark again.
A few faint and tenuous lines are beginning to cross those blind years. The images on rock in the Val C a m n i c a in the Tyrol seem t o be continuous from prehistory t o Roman times: in the earliest, horned men with strange paddles in their hands mate with reindeer cows, and in the later, they own wagons and chariots and bronze swords. James Mellaart's discoveries a t Catal Hiiyuk in Anatolian Turkey connect history and prehistory: the bulls of Lascaux and Altamira are still in the religious symbolism, and the big-bosomed goddess is there, flanked by leopards, recognizably the Mama of Sumeria and the Cybele of ancient Syria.