John Calvin was able to declare in 1555 without fear of contradiction: «There is no nation so barbarous, no
race so
brutish as not to be imbued with the conviction that there is a God.»
With deadpan drollery, LaDuke
raced through a gamut of concerns, from abject life to
brutish death, presenting images of paintings that veered from the photorealistic to the abstract and of extraordinarily painstaking, lifelike sculptures.