Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The moral status of the prostitute is a natural issue for modern questioning of traditional ethics. Christianity has taken a dramatic position on this issue, giving no quarter to sins brought on by the harlot, yet offering her soul communal redemption. But in by-passing the powerful intellectual and emotional...
In the Woodwork. Artists in particular are the guardians, or victims, of the Rousseau romanticism that Snow deplores. They see themselves as the champions of the individual against the Philistines. The stance, however, is no longer true. There will always be Philistines, but right now they are hiding in the...
There are the numberless artists who lived to express their visions, or merely to earn applause, or both: Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Raphael and Mozart, who aimed to please; El Greco, Goya, Picasso, Beethoven, Proust and Yeats, who mostly aimed to please themselves. And there are those who found in art a...
The results of this experiment were unambiguous: the boy decided that his talent was less than his standards demanded and that his standards demanded and that his desire to paint was far from insatiable. Once having rejected a career as an artist, William seldom looked back. His subsequent work always...
Susskind is no shy credit-taker himself. He speaks of the three movies produced with his money--Edge of the City, Raisin in the Sun, and Requiem for a Heavyweight-- as "my pictures." And he regards the art of television as something akin to artistic portraiture. "That Brando interview," he...