Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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American bands don't seem to have the staying power of the English. Of the great American bands of the 1960s, only the Grateful Dead remain, and they're rapidly fading into an overproduced haze of disco in their studio albums. Oddly, it's Neil Young--the most inconsistent artist around, hopping from drunken, off-key singing on one album to sugar-coated acoustic pap on another--who has brought out one of his best albums, more than a decade and a half into his career...
...86th birthday of Europe's greatest living painter, some 300 examples of Joan Miro's last quarter-century of work were rounded up for a unique display at Saint-Paul-de-Vence on the French Riviera. The ultimate objetamid the sculpture, paintings and stained glass: the artist himself, in a rare public appearance. Physically Miro showed the shadings of age; artistically, however, he sounded positively primal. "I have a whole infinity of projects in mind," he promised the gathering of international well-wishers. "I am simply waiting for an opportunity to realize them...
...John Dryden put it, "God's first idea." Mocking such conceits as clipping bushes into the shapes of beasts, Alexander Pope urged that the three arts of poetry, painting and gardening be united. The first to execute Pope's grand vision successfully was Architect, Painter and Landscape Artist William Kent, who began work on Claremont around 1725. Nature abhors a straight line, maintained Kent, as he set about demolishing walls and ploughing parterres. The result: an elegant wilderness that resembled a painting by Claude Lorraine. Claremont gives the appearance of an untouched landscape complete with grassy knolls...
...score rather than impassioned urgency. Says Assistant Pops Conductor Harry Ellis Dickson: "He was a very unsentimental sort of guy, and it showed in the music." Yet Fiedler made himself into a national phenomenon. The best-known "serious" musician in America, he was also the bestselling classical artist of all time (over 50 million records). His "Evening at Pops" programs were consistently among the top-rated PBS shows, and one of the high points of America's Bicentennial was a thunderous performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, conducted by an exuberant Fiedler before 400,000 wildly cheering enthusiasts...
...Tony. The Grammy. Next, the Bookie? Now that the Association of American Publishers has replaced the 30-year-old National Book Awards with something called the American Book Awards, that is a distinct possibility. The association grandly suggests that "a plaque or statuette designed by a major American artist" be awarded to winners. Unfortunately, there is no promise as yet of a checkette drawn on a major American bank...