Word: 1930s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the ultimate decision will be made by thegraduate council, which includes graduates fromthe 1930s to the 1980s, Vogt said the councilwants its decision to be an informed...
...case in point is Jackson Pollock's early Mural, 1943, that magnificent wall of writhing protofigures, its passionate wristy drawing inspired by 1930s Picasso yet unmistakably leading to Pollock's mature style. But at the Royal Academy, it doesn't connect to a major "allover" painting by Pollock, because none could be borrowed. This problem repeats itself with other artists. Robert Rauschenberg's Canyon, 1959 -- that unforgettably poignant assemblage featuring a real, stuffed, blackened American eagle spreading its wings but equipped with a pillow in case it fails -- needed backing up with more powerful work than this show could obtain...
...approach is that first isn't always best. The history of American art abounds in artists who developed late and did their best work long after the movements they were first associated with had lost their impetus. Stuart Davis, for instance, was a far better painter in the 1930s than in the 1920s. The full unfolding of Robert Motherwell's talent, particularly in collage, happened after the prime years of Abstract Expressionism, and the same is true of Lee Krasner. (Not that it matters to this show, which includes neither of them...
...next year, director Mary Lambert rented Sound Stage 5 at the Hollywood Center Studios. Watching a scene in which actress Deborah Harry, dressed in a skintight dress with a plunging neckline, strides into a chamber decorated with ancient Egyptian props is like stepping back into the studios of the 1930s...
...George ((Burns)) and Gracie ((Allen)), still working for CBS, were involved in a running gag about Gracie's 'missing brother' George Allen . . . In working out their opening exchange ((for a guest appearance on Rudy Vallee's radio show on NBC in the 1930s)), all hands agreed it might begin with Rudy saying, 'Hello, Gracie, have you found George yet?' Scripts were prepared accordingly. NBC in a last-minute ruling, decreed otherwise. The missing brother gag, NBC held, was a CBS promotion and nuts to a rival network promoting itself over NBC facilities. The script would have to be rewritten...