Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...initial lull allowed a few high school seniors to hit the library. One woman, from Washington D.C., said she had spent the afternoon in the Winthrop House library, working on a term paper on "Immigration's Effect on the Progressive Era in the 20th Century...
...country of the mind. Welcome to Laurie Anderson's United States, Parts I-IV, given its full-length premiere last week at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Part narrative epic, part rock opera, part home movie, United States is a sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, aphoristic examination of 20th century life in 78 segments, lasting six hours and taking two evenings to perform. Wagnerian in its scope, Carrollian in its absurdist wit, Carsonian in its deadpan, stand-up-comic timing, Anderson's work is the biggest, most ambitious and most successful example to date of the avant-garde hybrid...
...think of the work I do as a kind of opera," says the petite, fine-boned Anderson, 35, and in a sense it is. With its roots in movements as disparate as Dada and the '60s happenings, performance art may be described as the 20th century equivalent of 16th century Florentine opera, an attempt to fuse many diverse art forms into a new, coherent whole. In her loft in lower Manhattan, Anderson, the object of a cult following since the mid-'70s, has been working on United States for four years. O Superman, a song included...
Five of the Core courses in the top 10 were new to the list. Literature and the Arts B-16; Literature and the Arts C-31. "Literature of the Outsider in America," Literature and Arts A-12, "Great Novels of 19th and Early 20th Centuries", Historical Study A-12, "International Conflicts in the Modern World"; and Historical Study B-5, "The World of the Early Christians...
...18th century the Popes began to lose their enthusiasm for live art, and the men who transformed painting in the 19th century-Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Cezanne-excited not a flicker of interest in the Vatican. In the 20th century papal patronage guttered out, except for a few ornamental mediocrities like Giacomo Manzii's door for St. Peter's. Modern Popes disliked modern art because they associated it with liberalism. Eventually the problem vanished: John Paul II would learn to use television as his predecessors had used fresco...