Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sixty years have passed since Gustaf made his first purchase: a hexagonal famille rose dish of the Ch'ien Lung period. In the interim he has bought about 2,400 objects for his collection which he works at with as much archaeological curiosity as artistic love. Even the dog...
John MacKenzie, an 18-year-old college sophomore from Stockton, Calif., won this year's Kodak Senior Teen-Age Movie Award with an evocative, camera-of-the-absurd put-on that showed two leather-jacketed, switch-bladed punks running up and down crumbling ladders, dancing on rooftops, beating up...
If an allegedly obscene film is the work of a famous author, does his repu tation make the work "socially impor tant" and, therefore, not obscene? No, ruled the California District Court of Appeal in the case of Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour. The French scatologist...
In his book Waiting for the End, Leslie Fiedler argues that the novel may simply disappear. If so, it will be "first, because the artistic faith that sustained its writers is dead, and second, because the audience need that it was invented to satisfy is being better satisfied otherwise"-by...
Girls, meanwhile, are quietly nudged toward conformity and passiveness. They are permitted to cry and seek comfort, become more sensitive to human relationships. While male aggressiveness fosters analytical thinking, problem solving and scientific pursuits, female sensitivity, on the other hand, spurs artistic expression and an edge in music and literature...