Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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As the current publishers realize, Call It Sleep's history is its finest selling point. To those who equate failure with artistic integrity, three decades of neglect suggests more than ordinary merit. And for culture-snob and intellectual alike, the book's underground reputation has immense appeal. A friend recommended...
It will not be easy, but the decision of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts must take into account that same Court's important ruling in the Tropic of Cancer case here. At that time it said "the First Amendment protects material which has value because of ideas, news, or...
Altarpiece Billboards. "There is something that repeats itself in all good art," Beckmann said, "that is artistic sensuousness, combined with artistic objectivity toward the thing represented." Beckmann subjected even his nightmares to a harsh, objective light and portrayed them with a concrete reality that drew him acclaim, along with George...
"I am abstract with memories," was Paul Klee's artistic credo, and he propelled 20th century art away from the imitation of nature toward the imitation of the human mind. He was mainly a draftsman, and his sharp pen point pricked out tense traceries of squiggles dots and arrows...
LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Françoise Gilot. Picasso's penultimate mistress tells in bitterly frank detail of her nine turbulent years with the century's most extraordinary painter-genius and illumines, by her own very considerable artistic knowledge, his views on the art and artists around him...