Word: art
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leave hardly a news beat unexploited. Bullfighters commonly reserve up to one-third of a season's take for newspaper, radio and TV critics, who might otherwise ungraciously give top billing to the bulls. For pesos the journalists make lackluster movies seem works of art, and prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company of an unidentified señorita...
...art reaches its fullest flower among the political writers and columnists. Many of them buy blocks of space from their publishers, reap tidy subsidiary fortunes by reselling it-at higher rates-to anyone in the market for their wares, which can be either adulation or silence. Among the buyers are minor government officials, politicians and industrialists. The national railroads are steady customers, happy to pay for the privilege of keeping minor train wrecks out of the news; press faultfinding with Pemex rose sharply after the state-owned oil company dropped its annual reporters' subsidy of 9,000,000 pesos...
While abstract expressionism rules the cash register in Manhattan's prospering art galleries, young artists across the land are turning back to images-but with a difference. The classical tradition, reasserted in the Renaissance, has always been that people are beautiful, at least in art. The new imagemakers dispute that. Their figures are human, but horrible. The horror school has its center in Chicago, is staffed by an earnest, loose-knit and surprisingly well-adjusted handful of Art Institute graduates...
...canvases, Cohen combined deliberately clumsy, pictographic painting with collage, pasting in a round mirror and a hank of Eve's hair. Mirrors, he explains, "are the supreme illusion; they mock both the viewer and the painting." Cohen teaches at Northwestern University, talks well about other men's art but bogs down when it comes to his own nightmarish visions. "I begin with something only half formed," he says, waving his hands. "I believe that in painting, you just have to step...
...Chicago monster artists will be conspicuous in an exhibition being readied for fall by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, to be billed as "The New Images of Man." From Chicago, at least, it appears that man is not looking good...