Word: art
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...educated art critic I am not, but in my years as a householder I have leafed through enough wallpaper sample books to be able to recognize most of the traditional designs at sight...
...Your vivid story on the art of Kenneth Noland [April 18] reminds me of a visit to the Vermont farm in South Shaftsbury now owned by the artist and his wife. I was in search not of Mr. Noland, whose painting was then unfamiliar to me, but of the former home of Robert Frost, which the Nolands have renovated and restored. This was The Gully farm, purchased by Frost as a Christmas present to himself in 1928. A barn close to the house had been converted into a studio for Noland...
This approach has made him, among other things, a founding father of that singularly obdurate style of sculpture known as Minimal art. In 1961, when De Maria was still a neophyte artist, he built two plain wood boxes. They differed from later Minimal artists' boxes primarily by being open and filled with wood blocks. De Maria intended the spectator to wonder obscurely whether or not he ought to shift the blocks from one box to the other...
...watch his representation of the politics of another era. When he graduated last year as an English major, he had written prose and poetry, but never before a play. Now, as a playwright and as a person involved in the Harvard community, he is concerned with the relevance of art to politics, and with a synthesis between them, which he hopes his play accomplishes...
...play, then, does have relevance to politics, and it is a play that asks its viewers to find its relevance to them. But the exact nature of that relevance, or the relation of art to politics, is difficult to define. Steven Shea readily admits that he has no illusions about the power of art to actually change politics, not the way that a sit-in in University Hall can. But he does believe, tentatively, that art may become the root of a new consciousness and thus play a secondary role in the formation of a new political consciousness. The tension...