Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...constructivists published manifestos, attained key posts in Soviet schools and workshops, and succeeded in tying their artistic ideals to the official Soviet Marxist dogma. Tatlin continued to design abstract collages, experimenting with industrial materials: zinc, cables, iron, stucco, glass and asphalt. He maintained that constructivism was the true art of the masses because it was part of the machine age. It could be mass-produced, it married impractical art to socially useful architecture, and it represented a departure from the decadent realism of the Czarist past. With mixed feeling, Berlin's Dadaist Raoul Hausmann contrived a photomontage "portrait...
They occupy limbo, so nothing really happens. Time Present is monopolized by Pamela (Jill Bennett), an unemployed actress who swigs champagne and keeps a deathwatch on the only man she seems ever to have adored, her actor father. Pamela carps about everything from Americans to taxes to pop art, saving her choicest vitriol for a rival actress she calls "Lady Tinker-Bell" and whom she dismisses as "that blowtorch Mary Pickford." (Played by Kika Markham, she looks more like a striking diminutive version of Vanessa Redgrave.) The role of Pamela is demanding and singularly graceless, but Jill Bennett (the offstage...
...Nudist Campers evokes the critical judgment rendered by Martin Esslin, author of The Theater of the Absurd, that "the modern theater aspires to the condition of the brothel, but it cannot deliver the goods." At Jim Haynes' Arts Laboratory, every night is an esthetic Mardi Gras, and one obsessive concern of the "artists" is to make expressive art objects of themselves. They are human happenings, and as such may spell the death of art rather than its birth. For them, durability seems like death. Their credo is not "Life is short. Art is long" but "Life is short. Art...
...modern theater, whether in London or New York, dwells in this half-light, with its pensive mixture of not-yet-dusk and not-quite-dawn. Since drama does not spin on nature's axis but on man's art, the pallid half-light may be prolonged. In few ages has the theater dazzled, yet through how many has it endured...
...progress is real despite our whining," they conclude, "it is not because we are born any healthier, better or wiser than infants were in the past, but because we were born to a richer heritage, born on a higher level of that pedestal which the accumulation of knowledge and art raises as the ground and support of our being...