Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HAPPENED IN BOSTON? by Russell H. Greenan. Witless German art experts, villainous Peruvian generals, paranoiac harpies, spying pigeons, nosy janitors and struggling artists are only part of the fantastic story that leads a deranged narrator, park-bench dreamer and master painter into forgery, murder and an attempt to kill...
...Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset once compared a work of art to a window through which life can be seen without the need to account for the structure, transparency and color of the windowpane. Nowadays, most artists would argue that quite the reverse is true. With cameras available to record the view behind the windowpane, the artist must concentrate on making his window preeminent. In fact, the 20th century has witnessed the development of a genre that consists of windows seen through other windows: in other words, works of art that deal with other works of art...
Back of the Easel. In recent years, particularly, a growing number of artists have chosen this device as a way of making outspoken comments about the nature of their calling. The majority of these works are little more than postgraduate examples of those art school exercises in which students are called upon to copy older paintings or even to try to improve on them. A minority illuminate their topic unforgettably. By penciling a Dali-like goatee and mustache onto a reproduction of the Mono Lisa, Marcel Duchamp made it difficult for anyone looking at the lady thereafter to overlook either...
...more unsettling than any of its predecessors. For one thing, the school is proliferating rapidly. One Manhattan showroom is currently showing Richard Pettibone's miniature copies of Andy Warhol's soup cans, while another opened last week with Howard Kanovitz's paintings of his easel, his art-world friends and the backs of his canvases. A third gallery is showing Malcolm Morley's version of Vermeer's Portrait of the Artist in His Studio-a much-admired painting that has also served as the model for a collage by Alfred Di Lauro and a painting...
...WOULD THE ROCK musician improve his art when the groupies already want him for what he is when he isn't really anything...