Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Northeastern pounced on an injury-riddled Crimson crew at the outset, as it copped firsts in four out of the six field events. Harvard's usually potent field squadron was hampered by the absence of co-captain Blayne Heckel, out with a pulled hamstring, and long-jump artist Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, who is still nursing a knee injury sustained...
...home, Robert Fitzgerald's "A Memoh, Reprinted from The Collected Short Prose of James Agee. Fitzgerald's memories show a recognition of all the possible roles he could use to talk about his friend, and through this awareness there comes a seriousness that comes closest to understanding Agee as artist, journalist and man. There seems to have been a certain distance in their relationship that allowed Fitzgerald 'o use his keen sensitivity to us fullest extent. But there was also a great deal of shared experience...
Your critic's judgment that future generations will not derive much aesthetic pleasure from Benton's "big machines" misreads the genius of this Midwestern artist...
...going to be just a studio painter, a pattern maker in the fashion then dominating the art world-as it still does. I began to think of returning to the painting of subjects-subjects with meaning-which people in general might be interested in. One of the ways [the artist] could do that is pay more attention to public meanings-meanings that people in general can share-and less attention to [the artist's] private aesthetic meaning, which they cannot wholly share without special training...
When asked to evaluate some of his major works, Benton replied, "It is not the artist but the interested spectators who finally determine the values of works of art. I'll let my case rest with them. As a matter of fact, I have no other choice...