Word: artful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAME childlike vision which guides his appreciation of art and the execution of his own art. The watercolors he does, beautifully presented in the film, are reminiscent of Paul Klec. whom he admires. Anais Nin, a close friend of Miller's who came to the film's showing at Emerson, compared Miller with Fellini in their love for clowns. Both have a great passion for the circus. Fellini once said that if he hadn't become a filmmaker, he would have been a circusmaster...
...Tralbaut. 350 pages. Viking. $40. The tortured impressionist painter is so well known that to present him to the public again, one critic has observed, would be like presenting Christ to Christians. Nevertheless this is a splendid job. Calling upon more than 50 years of devoted research, the Belgian art scholar Marc Edo Tralbaut has put together the most satisfying study of Van Gogh's life and works...
...Barbara Plumb. 159 pages. Viking. $14.95. A fascinating social document, full of cheerful ideas about interior design. The book shows how today's "with it" people live in Europe and the U.S. They subdivide interior space into tricky levels. They love mirrors and blazing primary colors. Their art works are random-a bolt of Persian cloth, a chrome lamp, a billboard fragment, a lute. Does all this glitter mean anything more than an egotist's smile? Author Barbara Plumb, editor of the Home section of the New York Times Magazine, chats tersely about each dwelling, but wisely leaves...
...German word meaning "rubbish." A six-inch plastic statue, of the same subject blessing an automobile dashboard is questionable kitsch, though the decision, like beauty, depends on the sophisticated eye of the beholder. Gillo Dorfles of the University of Milan has excavated the historical and contemporary worlds of religion, art, architecture, advertising and movies for kitsch artifacts...
...Greek letter Z is a symbol for "he still lives." In this case, Z refers to the murdered Deputy. But it is also the spirit of revolt against a stifling government that has banned, in addition to miniskirts, Twain, Chekhov, Beckett, and of course Z. As a work of art, Z can live without Greece. The question is, can the Greeks truly live without...