Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAVO PICASSO! (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Documenting the artist's life and work with a massive display of canvases and sculptures, some seen via satellite from Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais exhibits...
LETTERS OF JAMES JOYCE, edited by Richard Ellmann. The letters provide the only explanations Joyce ever offered about his revolutionary techniques in the novel, and also reveal the bohemian artist as doting husband and father...
...situation has produced a new kind of patron. "Most collectors today are not just satisfied with buying art, they want to buy a piece of the artist as well," grumbles one dissenter. "They want to belong to the art world, go see dirty movies at night at Andy Warhol's apartment." And Warhol in turn becomes a feature of gossip columns and a fixture at society's tables. Any day now he may be wrapped in plaster by the plaster master, George Segal, and propped against the bar in somebody's penthouse...
...Charlemagne's workshop is an ivory plaque symbolic of its time (see opposite page). Christ is the central figure, triumphant despite his torment on the cross. The Second Coming, which some Christians had hoped would take place in the year 1000, appears as a future inevitability to the artist. High in the iconography is the hand of God reaching down to pull men to heaven...
...creeps, from stale crisis to predictable denouement. Will David marry Sara Kent, the white artist who loves him despite race and rancor? Will he accept the tempting offer of a State Department post in seething black Africa? Or will he meet a martyr's fate under the gunsight of nasty OP Clete...