Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only area in which this presents a real problem is in her larger sculpture. Despite her virtuosity, Nevelson has not made a good crossing from private to public space, although she is besieged by commissions. In fact, there is hardly one major 20th century artist-not even Alexander Calder or Henry Moore- whose essential oeuvre includes much public, commissioned sculpture. On the public scale, the suppleness of intuition tends to stiffen and is replaced more often than not by a mild form of self-parody. The old cliché was the bronze general on horseback, humiliated by birds...
Piano Music of the 20th Century (Deutsche Grammophon, 5 LPs). Pollini plays the best selection of modern classics available in one album...
Bunky Sheppard works for 20th Century-Fox Records in Los Angeles now. He is a vice president, a successful promo man. Of the six Sheppards, James Allen is dead, and another, Eskridge, has disappeared. Perk Perkins still sings occasionally. He works nights at a Chicago plating company, picks up extra money as a freelance deejay at parties. He likes to reminisce about the days when 5,000 kids in a Michigan City armory charged the stage when they heard Island of Love. Sometimes he plays the Sheppards album. His wife, his children, or his grandchildren will stop and listen...
...Villa Savoye belongs more to tomorrow than today, as it has for the past half-century. Jackson Pollock is still a puzzle to many people, who appreciate only the fancy prices his paintings now fetch. That lack of understanding is what makes this eight-part BBC series on 20th century art so valuable: it does not tell us where we are going, but it does tell us where we have been...
...machine worship. The Beaubourg Center (1977), which looks like a trite and showy illustration from a science fiction magazine, becomes a symbol of the decline of that exhausted era. In between is a terra incognita that we may think we know-the art of the 20th century...