Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Artist Fred W. Houn '79, who is a founding member of ECASU, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the conference...
What does an artist require of life? Quite simple things, really. The time and solitude necessary to temper talent and vision. A little money for supplies. The emotional support of kindly and patient friends. The right historical moment to present his work. And, finally, a sympathetic, critical champion, gently guiding an audience to proper appreciation of the artist's gifts. Simple things, yes. But how hard they are to come by, what luck is required in the quest, and how rarely artists themselves confront their difficulties in an engaging spirit. The whine of self-pity, the bombast of self-aggrandizement...
...right. In all of film there is no happier ending than this one: an artist achieving transcendence, her audience learning for the first (and possibly last) time the transforming power of art. Maybe it is not a miracle, but it is a foretaste of the paradise for which they have prayed all their pinched and gloomy lives. And Axel is a worthy saucier's apprentice. His orchestration of this parable matches her culinary skills in subtlety, verve and perfect taste. From soup to cognac, Babette's Feast is delicious, a meal that memory will forever savor...
Magus is a former performance artist, and he resembles David Byrne in his spontaneous, sharp movements onstage, as he combines speaking with the singing of his highly personal lyrics...
Chen says she harbors no great desire to introduce into her performance novelty for novelty's sake. "I wouldn't do anything drastically new with it, because I'm not a well-known artist and it wouldn't be acceptable," she says...