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Word: 20th (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sculpture's Queen Bee | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

Piano Music of the 20th Century (Deutsche Grammophon, 5 LPs). Pollini plays the best selection of modern classics available in one album...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music: Best Of 1980 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sounds Like Old Times | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Journey Through an Unknown Land | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Journey Through an Unknown Land | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

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