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individuals of yesteryears who were physically deployed in a myriad of small local cultures.
One needs to know nothing in order to be negative. One need only be clever with words or cartoon to become famous as an amusingly consistent sceptic or a dramatically devastating cynic. To be creditably positive, not just optimistic, one needs to know a great deal as learned only by direct experience. To be productively positive, one must also have great vision and the confidence of proven technical accomplishments manifest as physical products that work. To be effectively positive and also to inspire others to envision and realize humanity’s constructive options is to be a great artist.
In the 20th century’s unprecedented and utterly unforeseen transformation from a local to a universal culture, Ruth Asawa Lanier’s ever earthly pure, exquisitely ephemeral sculptures, sculptural murals, paintings, drawings, and her innumerable other exploratory formulations are probably the most embracing and exciting arts and artifacts of an emerging, world-around, classless democracy.
