Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Posev, a stridently anti-Moscow Russian-language journal published in Frankfurt by Soviet émigrés. All the articles had earlier appeared in Western journals, including the New York Times and the New Leader. In an essay on Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Mihajlov noted that the true artist "really endangers the dictatorship of the Soviet Communist Party." In another work, he accused Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito of permitting a "cult of personality" and denounced the Yugoslav "party oligarchy" for attempting "to reintroduce total dictatorship in all vital spheres...
...sociologist of all this new American territory." Updike deserved it--as a chronicler of suburbia he is unsurpassed. But a sociologist is something different from a novelist. He is an onlooker--in Updike's case, a perceptive and entertaining one--and he watches from a safe distance. The artist who stands removed from the scene and the people he describes risks losing a gut sensibility that a sociologist, after...
...often not, but that isn't the point. The point is that Cassavetes thinks films are not commercial, and, by extension, does not make films with commercial intent. What drives him isn't money; it's his "obsession." For Cassavetes is one of those oddities known as an artist who is often dealt with as such only after the fact--that is, in the mummified context of crusty lecture halls and dusty museums. He speaks not to the mind...
...only thread connecting his view of society with an intellectual's is the same starting material. An intellectual places what he sees on some historical yardstick; Cassavetes grabs the historical second and expresses it as a universal eternity. While analysing a picture's content allows the intellectual and the artist to compare notes, there comes a point when you have to accept an artist on his own terms. That is, if an artist's work eludes your mind but smacks your viscera, well, then maybe it's time to hang up the old cerebral touchstone...
Most of the rooms in the rambling, comfortably worth old houses are singles, although the newest residents share large doubles. Narrow staircases lead to art-gallery corridors where a nameless artist has adorned the walls with large-as-life figures. The quieter house at 1705 has no common rooms, and the constantly peopled first floor of "3 Sac" is the co-op's center...