Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this indefinable "body sensation" that haunts all of the new art, in one way or another, and brings the best of it stingingly alive. Even David Lee's clear sheets require a body moving between them to make the composition complete. "What I am doing," reflects Lygia Clark, "could almost be called art for the blind, but for the rest of us it is important too. We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds...
Thus, whether the art is abstract, playful or simply aimed to astound the senses or stagger the imagination, each work retains a sense that an individual conceived it and executed it by hand. Moreover, he did it for a purpose-to make the viewer look, and feel, and think. The artist may speak from underground, but he retains, in an elliptical way, his traditional role. It is to make his fellowman more aware, not only of his anxiety but also of the beauty that lurks at his fingertips, in the materials of everyday existence...
...search of a visual mode for its subject, West German animator Heinz Edelmann furiously ransacks the past. From the mannerists, he borrows "shot colors" -red blending into orange, blue fading into green. He employs the whiplash and the curvilinear strokes of art nouveau. He features the upholstered monsters of comic strips, the impudent whimsy of Dada, the vibrating poster art of Peter Max. The eclecticism almost becomes a style of its own, and occasionally it is effective, as in Eleanor Rigby when "all the lonely people" appear as gritty newsreel figures who float by each other in a surrealistic frieze...
...York Public Library manuscripts of course will be a pedant's prize. Task forces of scholars are probably even now forming up, all determined to ignore Eliot's advice, promulgated over many critical, rigorous years in the Criterion, that a work of art must manifest its own significance. Ahead lie long years of scholastic second guesses, tracing the skill beneath the scroll and the doodles that underlie The Waste Land's grand design...
...fall, when the band is very busy with marching appearances, Alice neglects her art work--except for designing posters and programs for the band. "I'd rather enjoy the band than do my work this time of year," she said. "My jobs can wait, but the band...