Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEILL: SON AND PLAYWRIGHT, by Louis Sheaffer. O'Neill did what only a major artist can do: make his public share his private demon. In this painstaking biography, the first of two volumes, Author Sheaffer traces the tensions that defined the playwright's life...
...have a turbulent heritage of soaring ecstasy and abject humiliation-but never indifference. You are one whose loyalty is unquestioned, whose joy is resounding, whose abusiveness is devastating. You are black or white, rich or poor, Jew or Gentile. You are a janitor or a Wall Street broker, an artist or a truck driver, a college dean or a housewife, a motion picture star or a social worker. You represent every facet of American life with a completeness no other gathering in the entire country can duplicate...
Some of Cliburn's admirers believe that such lapses-as well as the lengthening pauses between record releases-result from the strain of trying to be both an artist and a commercial phenomenon in the music business. To keep up the momentum that started in Moscow in 1958, Cliburn plays a punishing concert schedule of well over 100 appearances a year. At fees that start at $7,500 for a solo appearance, this means that he makes something like a million dollars a year, including record royalties -although he coyly denies that he is rich ("Heavens, no!"). Furthermore...
...while the mound we excavated was a ground-up cube. We had a negative and positive cube-a conceptual thing." To most people, of course, a hole in the ground remains a hole in the ground. Who would ever think of it as a negative cube? Only a conceptual artist like Claes Oldenburg, who delights in the play of the mind above all, in the thousand fantasies that supplement his visual riddles...
...Things are still well made," insists Keith Sonnier, "but the artists are sneakier about it." Sometimes indeed they are so sneaky that their craftsmanship eludes the viewer altogether. Bruce Nauman, 26, at Manhattan's Leo Castelli Gallery last February, showed off crude fiber glass forms, limp latex-and-cloth sculptures, and a stuttering neon sign that proclaimed "The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths." Minimalist Morris blossomed forth at a Castelli spring show with billowing grey strips of industrial felt...