Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that has characterized his other work, he re-creates in the November Harper's the events, personalities and mood of Miami Beach and Chicago. His reporting is, as always, intensely personal as it probes the darker, unexplored passageways of American political life. But Mailer - Eastern Seaboard exotic, alienated artist, New York practitioner of improvisational cinema - is strangely in touch with heartland America this election year. His own surprisingly shifting views of civil rights and Negroes, of WASPS and Nixon seem to reflect the national mood...
Ever since artists took to proclaiming that anything is art if the artist says it is, critics have been wondering where the brush would strike next. The instrument they had to fear was the shovel. In Manhattan's Dwan Gallery, the newest frontier is called "Earthworks," and the ingredients on display include dirt, worms, rocks, photographs and written descriptions. "Our original idea," explains the gallery's earth mother, Virginia Dwan, "was just to show earth as a medium, but it's difficult to know where to draw the line...
...Jackson Pollock from an Andrew Wyeth. It is also peculiarly modern. Says Cleveland's Lee: "At the heart of the whole modern concept of painting is the premise that technical skill is something almost anyone can acquire with effort, but great painting is a personal record of the artist for his own private ingroup, and he doesn't care about what the mass of people think...
...clue towards the origins of this kind of consciousness. We can approach it, I think, if we imagine a child playing, totally involved, and then imagine an adult playing at that game, or at some game adults consider equaly childish like painting, writing, or Rock and Roll. The artist develops a kind of dual consciousness totally involved and serious with one part of his mind, very detached and half-mocking with the other...
...wife, for as long as three days at a time. Conversely, he can be violently generous with himself and his money, and wildly exuberant in playing with his mates, the other Beatles. In all, John displays the complexity of character, the difficult emotional life that we associate with the artist...