Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ebullient Edwin A. Bergman, 50, president of Chicago's U.S. Reduction Co., values a work of art not for its mystery but for what it tells him of the artist who made it. "You sometimes wonder," he jests, "whether you are buying the art or a piece of the artist." The Bergmans' home is jammed with several generations of Dadaist and surrealist works. Some are by unknown artists, others by famous ones, who are personal friends...
...favorite is Sculptress Marisol. In fact, the Bergmans were lunching with her on Nov. 22, 1963, when they heard of Kennedy's assassination. They went sadly back to her studio, there saw her 1961 Kennedy Family. It had been returned from a West Coast gallery where a fellow artist had playfully drilled the Jack Kennedy doll in the chest with a pistol. Aghast but fascinated, Bergman bought the work after Marisol had repaired...
...display prompted Shepherd to say, "Del Rossi was a brilliant sort of pitcher. You won't find any college pitcher who knew how to put into application the tools of pitching better than Del Rossi. He was not just a thrower out on the mound. He was an artist...
...Borges, the universe is, as he said at a reading of his poetry in December, "an unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." Borges sees himself, the artist, not as a searcher for the exit to the labyrinth but as a man lost along with everyone else, who can perceive and can convey to his fellows flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The flashes of clarity within the windings of the maze. The essence of the lectures--especially the two most recent--is the expansion of such insights...
Only half-playfully Borges suggested, "Perhaps a time will come when we'll need no 'originals' in literature." The creative act will be acknowledged as the act of translation--since, as Borges postulates, the limited number of themes in literature (in life) have all been treated. The artist's job is to reshape, to clarify these themes, to put them into new combinations; and this, in effect, is translation...