Word: aims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Millard Fillmore Institute is Bear's most sincere tribute: he discovered in an encyclopedia that the nation's 13th President had turned down an honorary degree from Oxford on the grounds that he did not deserve it. Bear's aim: to promote a resurgence of Fillmore's rectitude...
...artists were driving manufacturers out and thus endangering the jobs of at least 20,000 unskilled, predominantly black and Puerto Rican workers. Massive evictions of artists seemed sure to come, since they were all illegal tenants. A committee named the SoHo Artists' Association was formed with a twofold aim: 1) to have artists officially reclassified as "light industry," and 2) to persuade the CPC that artists need to live where they work. There was no real conflict over space, the SoHo Artists' Association contended: most painters and sculptors live in lofts too small for industrial use, and these...
...grounds of an idea, is pretty low. It was to exhibit the fact that technology is not for learning lessons but is to be experienced." R.B. Kitaj offered the perverse idea of employing the facilities of Lockheed to produce a historical meditation on the 19th century Industrial Revolution, the aim being to examine the first era in which "a modernist presence has taken shape." Kitaj's room is a bizarre assemblage of model lighthouses, smokestacks, machined bas-reliefs of railway trucks, photographs of "The Father of Aviation" together with "The Mother and Daughter of Aviation." There is even...
...Catalyst. It is an honestly stated dilemma, for art is not science and cannot mimic its processes. But one aim of "Art and Technology" was to show that a feedback can occur, and that its very unpredictability can be stimulating. In this, the show is a revelation. And when it closes, it will have left behind one of the key documents in recent American art: the catalogue compiled by Maurice Tuchman in which all the ambitions, negotiations, blocks and frustrations involved in this immense project are set down, without fear or favor. "Art and Technology's" real importance...
...Aim and Misfire. The camera cannot confront a grown Caucasian without making him a rapacious stock villain, nor can it present the savage as anything but an improbably heroic amalgam of Friday, Chingachgook and St. Francis. A pity. The cast are an attractive lot and, as some lyrically nude bathing scenes demonstrate, Miss Agutter possesses one of the lithest, blithest young bodies on public view. Were the eye the only judge, Walkabout might be considered a treat. But no, Roeg and his scenarist Edward Bond (BlowUp) aim for the mind and miss wildly. Their preachy, anti-intellectual Natural Mannerisms...