Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the talented artist who dedicated his life to restoring beauty and craftsmanship to the working class of 19th century England...
LeRoi Jones, 33, the snarling laureate of Negro revolt, has distilled his rage against white America in poems and plays whose spectrum has room only for black. "The Black Artist must teach the White Eyes their deaths," Jones writes. And when Newark, his birthplace, was aflame with Negro rioting last July, Jones appeared bent on augmenting his words with action. Heading into the eye of the violence, police testified, Jones had concealed a brace of pearl-handled .32-cal. revolvers beneath the dashboard of his green camper bus and under the folds of his multihued African dashike tunic...
...last October's Manhattan sculp ture festival, Artist Claes Oldenburg hired two professional gravediggers to shovel out a coffin-sized hole in Central Park, then fill it up again. Olden burg thereupon solemnly proclaimed the result a buried, invisible sculpture. Last month it was time for the West Coast's retort. At Los Angeles' Century City, three young artists constructed a sculpture that disappeared slowly before the spectators' eyes, vanishing without a trace within 24 hours. The form: a 110-ft.-long, 15-ft.-wide, 22-in.-high labyrinth. The material: dry ice, shaped into blocks...
Some gallerygoers are disgruntled by the way Pearlstein details every sagging muscle and bulging abdomen, but the artist does it because he is fascinated with the way the folds and hollows flow into abstract compositions. "I'm not painting people," he maintains, and to emphasize this, lets the edge of his large-scale canvas lop off hands, heads or feet. "I'm dealing with what you see, how you see and how you depict what you see. The more you stare at something, the more it fills your whole field of vision...
...being confronted with another human being," explains Leslie. A slight, loquacious, onetime physical-culture enthusiast from The Bronx, he abandoned a successful career as an abstractionist in 1960 because "modern art had, in a sense, killed figure painting. Painting the figure had become the most challenging subject an artist could undertake...