Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans stare at a naked can vas painted by the artist Future, we can envision a war between the Arabs and the Israelis any time within the next few years. After the war begins, we can en vision the Arabs once again cutting off America's oil supply. We can visualize Americans growing cold living in their poorly heated houses and standing on corners waiting for streetcars...
...Canadian prairie. It was a land of mirages hrough which she often moved with her parents-a former schoolteacher and an R.C.A.F. officer turned grocery-store manager. By the time they finally settled in Saskatoon, the rugged beauty of Saskatchewan had given Joan Anderson the inspiration to become an artist. With money earned as a waitress at a coffeehouse named after Folk Hero Louis Kiel, Joan bought pens and ink. She also taught herself the baritone ukulele. But her attentions soon turned to rock 'n' roll...
What happens at this point is that delicious sensation of letting-go familiar to readers of huge 19th century novels, but much less readily available to a moviegoer today. A skilled popular artist -the kind of man who can blend subtly observed details with a gift for socko showmanship-takes over to lead a guided tour of an exotic yet humanly recognizable and completely realized world. That's really entertainment...
...LIFE AND WORK OF THOMAS EAKINS by Gordon Hendricks. 367 pages. Grossman. $45. A graceful and sympathetic, if somewhat languid biography of the famous Philadelphia artist, individualist, teacher (1844-1916). There is some interesting new material including excerpts from Eakins' own remarkably direct and often charming letters and from contemporary newspaper clippings...
EDWARD BOREIN: COWBOY ARTIST by Harold G. Davidson. 189 pages. Doubleday. $19.95. Borein (1872-1945) never achieved the celebrity of such Western artists as Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. He drifted from cowpunching along the Pacific Coast into a successful career of drawing what he had seen, later hung out with friends like Will Rogers and Walt Disney. This casual, sympathetic biography does not gloss over Borein's somewhat stiff draftsmanship or his penchant for sentimental vistas that would have embarrassed Hollywood set designers. But collectors of Western memorabilia value Borein for the literal accuracy of his work...