Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unencumbered by the luggage of tradition, and armed with that daring and brashness that is both the American virtue and vice, Jackson Pollock and others who followed him dispensed with the easel format, spread their canvases on the floor, and poured out tangled rhythms in loops and swirls of paint...
Push-Pull Theory. Its variety, if not infinite, was impressive. Mark Rothko reduced his palette to the softest shades and his compositions to a pair of rectangles in tandem. That commanding teacher Hans Hofmann preached what he called the "push-pull" theory of colors in tension-and practiced it to...
MEN AND ANGELS by Theodora Ward. 241 pages. Viking. $7.50. Angelic evolution-from divine messenger to artistic symbol-delicately traced through religion, literature and the dark corners of the human mind.
The Beatles are just so self-confident, they have such a sure touch. That was always the secret of the great Memphis Delta blues-men (and of folk artists in general, they could knock you dead by the mere aura of unself-conscious authority that they projected. I think that...
I'M NOT SURE whether America can be radically changed, and it scares me. I want to save my soul as a subject of the American Empire 1969, but it isn't an easy fight and the outcome is in doubt. "Salvation becomes almost a mundane, inevitable goal when things...