Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Evans's photographs are often described as "desolate," "stark" "social documentaries." Many perceive his photographs as political statements or attempts at social change. But "That's inadvertent...I am not a social protest artist...If you photograph what's before your eyes and you're in an impoverished environment, you're not--and shouldn't be. I think--trying to change the world or comment on this saying. 'Open up your hearts and bleed for these people.' I never dream of saying anything like that. That's too presumptuous and naive to think you can change society by a photograph...
However manic the score-keepers of society have become though, there is no reason we should suppose, as Barzun does, that proliferation of information necessarily leads to the sterilization of history. Barzun seeks the victory of historical artist over historical statistician, without considering the possibility that someone might be both. Yet Stephen Thernstrom's heavily statistical studies are as sensitive to the unquantifiable as any previous works on social mobility. Richard Sennett's book on nineteenth-century family life in Chicago (Families Against the City) is as audacious and speculative, though not as wide-ranging, as anything Barzun has written...
Maud Morgan, an artist and a member of the committee which drafted the controversial proposal, said yesterday that her committee's action was motivated by a "desire to inject some controversy into the otherwise bland proceedings...
...visiting an exhibition of Japanese paintings, he discovered the important secret about himself-"I am a born visualizer." Roughly in this order he began to paint in the style of Hokusai, Degas, Gauguin, Whistler and Matisse. By the time he reached Oxford, he knew he was not an artist; but he was irrevocably attached to the scale of the masterpiece-what a friend, Classicist Maurice Bowra, called "big stuff...
...sang at La Scala with Sills in 1969 for his own debut there, is another crucial triumph--his career is well-established internationally but still on the rise. As for the Met, he says, "My position here, of course, is not really steady. I'm not like a weekly artist--I go wherever the jobs are. I just keep travelling and wherever the right roles are, there...