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Retreat or plunge in? Artists contending with modern life can escape the bewildering tumult into transcendent realms of formal beauty and philosophical contemplation, or they can actively participate, injecting transformational energies into the social flux. This summer at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in this bucolic town, the escapist option is beautifully displayed in two forms: a blissful exhibition of late-19th- and early-20th-century paintings and a serene new building by the Pritzker Prize-winning Japanese architect Tadao Ando. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]