Word: artisticisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CLAES OLDENBURG-Janis, 15 East 57th. Known for "happenings" and Hamburgers, Oldenburg performs a new kind of artistic hocuspocus. With a fine feeling for materials, he instills inanimate objects with Geist, then wrenches from them a whole range of emotions. His Soft Telephone, its mouthpiece dangling, its coin box regurgitating...
>In East Germany, the Artists' Association Congress broke up in disagreement over "problems of reshaping life in our society." The dissidents were led by Sculptor Fritz Cremer, a longtime Communist, who called for greater artistic freedom in choosing form and content, and aired the heretical notion that doubt is...
But the real lesson was that both ailing orchestras are one-man bands. The Philharmonia is totally the creature of Impresario Walter Legge, just as the Royal Philharmonic was created by the late Sir Thomas Beecham "to maintain my reputation." Deprived of Sir Thomas' leadership, the Royal Philharmonic skidded...
GEORGES BRAQUE. The artistic revolutionary who, with another young firebrand named Picasso created cubism and I altered the course of modern art, died last year at 81. Four galleries bring together the largest showing of his work ever -some 200 paintings and sculptures on loan from American collections and benefiting...
Nadav Safran, assistant professor of Government (Studies in the role of bureaucracy in advanced and developing countries, in Egypt and throughout the Middle East). Daniel Seltzer, assistant professor of English (Studies in the development of Shakespeare's ethical view and artistic method, at Harvard and in England).