Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest strolling through his elegant garden in Verrieres-le-Buisson with his two cats, named Fourrure (fur) and Essuie-plume (penwiper). Still French Polymath Andre Malraux, 73, took time out to visit the Louvre for a television tribute to Michelangelo in honor of the 500th anniversary of the artist's birth. "Michelangelo invented the hero type. It had not existed before him, and he certainly did not discover it in antiquity, where it does not exist either, despite a well-anchored presumption," said the former Minister of Culture under Charles de Gaulle. Then he added gloomily: "There cannot...
...couldn't be put in a better way; Avery is an extraordinary artist. The Alpha Gallery at 121 Newbury St. in Boston is showing his works on paper, watercolors, gouaches, oils on paper and monotypes. Go see them. Through...
...again New York's Museum of Modern Art gathers itself for a major act of certification. It launches some heavy metal. The show of 35 sculptures by the English artist Anthony Caro that opens this week is just such an event. The ponderous slipway has been checked and greased. Brochures prepare us for a new Cunarder, the latest in a steelworking tradition that goes back to such august four-funnelers as the M.V. Picasso. The chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder...
...only takes one great artist to keep a tradition alive." So runs the first sentence of William Rubin's monograph, and one is left in no doubt which prince is coming. But now that the English dauphin has been so well anointed with the oil of consecration, one may step back and reflect that after all, his work does not have the immense flawed vitality of David Smith's; that it is an intelligent, distinguished but sometimes only dec orative addition to the short history of constructed sculpture...
...from above. Later in his 20 years at Fortune, he not only decided what subjects he would photograph but wrote the accompanying captions and stories. Says Szarkowski. "Stryker thought that the unit's function was to help reform the ills of the country, and Evans thought it was an artist's function to describe life. Stryker thought that the meaning of the pictures was clear, and Evans found the best of them inexhaustibly mysterious." Evans would always let people comb their hair and arrange themselves as they wanted to, for he felt that this was not only the only respectful...