Word: artfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daughters are a successful poet (Diane Keaton) married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit of an artist, but no gift for any particular art. Late in life father has divorced mother, who grows more visibly dotty as the knowledge sinks in that he will never return; indeed, he has taken up with a sensible widow (Maureen Stapleton) whom the kids hate despite (really because of) her warmth...
...quest is having great expectations. Watching passively and eliminating the distinctions between the observer and the observed are Zen basics that have been familiar to Western readers since Eugen Herrigel told us how the bow and arrow became an extension of his body in Zen in the Art of Archery (1953). Matthiessen has a full quiver and considerable patience; his problem seems to be an overabundance of targets...
...past ten years photography has swept, as it were, from the magazine to the museum. There is no debate left on whether photography is an art; it is universally accepted as such, although the arguments for this or that aesthetic of photography are as brisk and rancorous as ever. Avidly collected, taught on an industrial scale, buoyed up by reams of historical exegesis and critical debate, photography in America has moved into the public eye, rather as painting did in the 1960s, and no American institution has done more to create this state of affairs than the Museum of Modern...
...that "good photographers had long since known?whether or not they admitted it to their editors?that most issues of importance cannot be photographed." So one of the messages of the show is clear: in the judgment of MOMA?the first American museum to treat photography systematically as an art and perhaps the most powerful taste-forming museum in the country?the documentary or "concerned" tradition, which ran from Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine through figures like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Margaret Bourke-White and W. Eugene Smith, has petered...
...undergone changes similar to those that overtook painting and sculpture. "The general movement of American photography," Szarcowski writes, "has been from public to private concerns." Photography has become more and more aware of its own history and limits as a medium: a debate about these is built into the art, so that photography, instead of being an unproblematic record of appearances, is also selfcriticism...