Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shortly after the show opens, the head of the Weiss family, a doctor played by Fritz Weaver, is exiled from Berlin to the Warsaw Ghetto. His wife (Rosemary Harris) soon follows, and eventually the couple end up in Auschwitz. The oldest Weiss son (James Woods), an artist, marries a Roman Catholic (Meryl Streep), only to be sent to Buchenwald, then to the "privileged" camp of Theresienstadt, then Auschwitz. His brother (Joseph Bottoms) goes on the run, meets and marries a Czech Zionist (Tovah Feldshuh), and later joins the underground Jewish partisans fighting in the Ukraine. As Green traces the stories...
...artist is 64 this year: a solid, wiry man, rabbinically delicate in gesture and as immobile in repose as a large tabby cat. For decades he has been regarded as the best cartoonist in America. Publishing mainly in The New Yorker?for which, to date, he has done 56 cover designs and innumerable drawings?Steinberg has erected standards of precision and graphic intelligence that had not existed in American illustration before him. "After nearly 40 years of looking at his work," remarks the magazine's editor, William Shawn, "I am still dazzled and astounded by it. His playfulness and elegance...
...doyen of cartoonists, Saul Steinberg is also to growing numbers of his colleagues a "serious" artist of the first rank. "In linking art to the modern consciousness," declares Art Critic Harold Rosenberg, "no artist is more relevant than Steinberg. That he remains an art-world outsider is a problem that critical thinking in art must compel itself to confront." That showdown is about to begin. This week an exhibition of 258 drawings, watercolors, paintings and assemblages by Steinberg opens at New York City's Whitney Museum, accompanied by a book (Saul Steinberg; Knopf; $10.95 softcover) with critical appraisal...
...Based on Revelation 12: 1-4, it stands at the extreme opposite end of the scale of feeling from Blake's lyric inventions, the visions of Eden, of childhood and angelic morning stars. It was as a biblical illustrator that Blake achieved his greatness as an artist. His color prints of 1795, along with his illustrations of Milton and biblical water-colors of 1800-09, contain some of the most sublime and tragic images of the body ever to be put on small sheets of paper. Never again would the nude be made to carry such a wealth...
...zoom shots, but the ruse does not succeed. The cast does not do much to flesh out the material either. Be sides having no resemblance to the real Bellocq, Carradine rarely gets a handle on the mysterious photographer-hero. With his sepulchral demeanor, he looks less like an obsessed artist than a constipated undertaker. Sarandon, sputtering like a road-show Tennessee Williams heroine, never creates a credible character. Nor does Singer Frances Faye, playing an ancient madam who does an obligatory mad scene when reformers close down her business...