Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WASHINGTON is basically an imperial seat plus slums plus liquor stores. The celebrated Mall stretches about a mile from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the shores of the Potomac. On either side of it loom numberless federal buildings. Except for the Pentagon, it's all right there. Most...
Perhaps it is because the U.S. has entered a new era of romanticism that exalts esthetic feeling and the passive enjoyment of sensuous spectacle. Perhaps it is because the dance has developed artistic strength and social consciousness. Whatever the cause, the cheerful effect is clear. American audiences in recent years...
The Fog apparently chose Shahn for his nostalgic notes on America as well as his artistic excellence for this exhibition of photographs, their first to be presented in a long time. In spite of Shahn's intention merely to record his era, several of these documentary prints transcend this critical...
Like his photography, Ben Shahn's paintings, particularly the series on Sacco and Vanzetti, reveal his concern with social injustice. He stressed the social function of his art rather than its aesthetic value. Photography he regarded purely as a means of documentation. He shot prisons, bales of hay, store fronts...
THE FIRST-TIME reviewer is in a spot. After years of slogging through the editorial pages on safe, dependable Political Analses, he's afraid to bare his artistic judgments before the breakfast-table audience. And when he knows that his first appearance as a critic will also be his last...