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  • noun Plural form of colocynth.

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  • The Martinez of these "Bodegons" (the word for his colocynths, in Spanish) thinks that the relation of an artist to Time is always a hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a victory, often a defeat -- but that worse than defeat is, obviously, the defeatism of those who would resign themselves to the aesthetic tourism of the post-moderns.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • It is an ensemble -- drawings, photos, but especially sculptures -- of gigantic squashes, of moulded bronze colocynths that one would describe as drawn from the "antivegital vegetation" (in other words, reinvented, revived, produced and, in short, thought of vegetation) that Malraux depicts in his description of Picasso's atelier.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • It is an ensemble -- drawings, photos, but especially sculptures -- of gigantic squashes, of moulded bronze colocynths that one would describe as drawn from the "antivegital vegetation" (in other words, reinvented, revived, produced and, in short, thought of vegetation) that Malraux depicts in his description of Picasso's atelier.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • The Martinez of these "Bodegons" (the word for his colocynths, in Spanish) thinks that the relation of an artist to Time is always a hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a victory, often a defeat -- but that worse than defeat is, obviously, the defeatism of those who would resign themselves to the aesthetic tourism of the post-moderns.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • It is an ensemble -- drawings, photos, but especially sculptures -- of gigantic squashes, of moulded bronze colocynths that one would describe as drawn from the "antivegital vegetation" (in other words, reinvented, revived, produced and, in short, thought of vegetation) that Malraux depicts in his description of Picasso's atelier.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • It is an ensemble -- drawings, photos, but especially sculptures -- of gigantic squashes, of moulded bronze colocynths that one would describe as drawn from the "antivegital vegetation" (in other words, reinvented, revived, produced and, in short, thought of vegetation) that Malraux depicts in his description of Picasso's atelier.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • The Martinez of these "Bodegons" (the word for his colocynths, in Spanish) thinks that the relation of an artist to Time is always a hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a victory, often a defeat -- but that worse than defeat is, obviously, the defeatism of those who would resign themselves to the aesthetic tourism of the post-moderns.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • It is an ensemble -- drawings, photos, but especially sculptures -- of gigantic squashes, of moulded bronze colocynths that one would describe as drawn from the "antivegital vegetation" (in other words, reinvented, revived, produced and, in short, thought of vegetation) that Malraux depicts in his description of Picasso's atelier.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • The Martinez of these "Bodegons" (the word for his colocynths, in Spanish) thinks that the relation of an artist to Time is always a hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a victory, often a defeat -- but that worse than defeat is, obviously, the defeatism of those who would resign themselves to the aesthetic tourism of the post-moderns.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

  • The Martinez of these "Bodegons" (the word for his colocynths, in Spanish) thinks that the relation of an artist to Time is always a hand-to-hand combat, sometimes a victory, often a defeat -- but that worse than defeat is, obviously, the defeatism of those who would resign themselves to the aesthetic tourism of the post-moderns.

    Bernard-Henri Lévy: Run to See Jacques Martinez Bernard-Henri Lévy 2010

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