Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Government or foundation projects that other agencies may be better equipped to handle. "A dozen of the leading universities," he says, "are now managing large programs of urban renewal and race relations, engaging in the improvement of- housing and rehabilitation of moral derelicts, uplifting economically depressed areas, or supplying art to the community-all this without evidence that they are equipped with the talent, organization or experience to succeed." Barzun agrees with the late Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset that the university "has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture...
...past nine years, Robert Ryman, 38, a shy, quiet, Tennessee-born part-time art teacher, has lived in Manhattan lofts and tenements and painted "naked" pictures. That is to say, he covers rectangles of metal, canvas or paper with white paint and then, instead of framing them or stretching them, he mounts them as close to the wall as he can get them, sometimes stapling them directly to the plaster. The effect is unnerving. The wall seems to have developed a gaping hole...
Pure Dirt. In enlightened 1968, even New York's moderately avant-garde critics are prepared to agree with Tuttle that yes, indeed all this may be art. But what kind of art? Some call it "antiform," for its outlines-or rather, its conspicuous efforts to avoid them. Others call it "process art," for it proudly shows off the marks of the process by which it was made. Another term is "conceptual art," for in every case, the concept behind the piece is infinitely more impressive than the workmanship. And "conceptual art," everybody agrees, is deliberately made hard to understand...
...raised in Chicago, studied English at Yale, but switched to art at the Art Institute of Chicago and came to New York in 1956 to pioneer artistic happenings. He staked out new frontiers for pop art with his plaster foodstuffs, which he sold at his 1961 Lower East Side Store. (The businessman who bought his plaster pies for $900 then values them at $12,000 today...
Aggressive Medium. For nearly a decade, or since Robert Rauschenberg hung a tire on a stuffed goat and Andy Warhol began painting the soup can, artists have labored to create simple, obvious public art. They used colors that screamed; painting was likely to have hard-edged forms; sculpture was geometric, intended as focal points in plazas. Today the trend is in the opposite direction: artists are deliberately going underground. Even though they may use people as part of their sculptures-as does Byars-their purposes remain arcane and enigmatic...