Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would the old Modern pick from the bewildering landscape of a decayed avant-garde in the 1970s? The result, though not wholly predictable, is not very surprising. Most of the eight artists are under 40 and (with the exception of a body-artist and performer named Vito Acconci) work in the area where minimalism makes contact with conceptual art. It is a grayed-out, low-pressure, cool show, and its pleasures are decidedly mixed...
With other artists in the show, low energy slides into mere inconsequence. Their work is elaborately hermetic, and so looks like a manifesto. But what is being manifested? Manual labor, apparently-endless somnambulistic notations, proffering not a whit of meaning. One could possibly train ants to do it. Thus the German conceptual artist Hanne Darboven, 33, has assembled two huge panels, each made of several hundred sheets of paper scrawled with words-strings of unrelated numbers, written out in German. This arithmorrhea, she assures the catalogue reader, has nothing to do with mathematics. Nor, apparently, is it meant...
Watered Silk. Nevertheless, they are almost dramatic in comparison with the works of the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti, the Frenchman Daniel Buren or the Australian Robert Hunter. Boetti's way of artmaking is to cover (or have his assistants cover) large sheets of paper with millions of tiny strokes of a ballpoint pen, thus turning all the paper blue except for some stray commas and capital letters which are left white. This laborious doodling produces now and again some pretty moire effects, like watered silk, but that is all, and the all is virtually nothing. It is, however, more...
Eric Anderson. Eric Anderson is a folkie whose transitory states of popular recognition are as difficult to explain as the artist himself. Sometimes electric, sometimes Nashville-inspired, Anderson's compositions seem most at ease when pervaded by a gentle air of melacholy that advocates introspection and self-awareness. An excellent performer, he is able to move entire audiences by his poignant vocals and sparkling guitar playing. A must for folkies, et. al. At Sanders Theater November 9 at 8 p.m. Tickets on sale for $4 at Holyoke Ticket Center...
...Royal Ballet and founder of the Royal Ballet School. Left unrecorded was the debut of Lady Sarah's mother, Princess Margaret, 44. Not wanting her daughter to get a leg up, Princess Margaret has begun taking ballet lessons herself -with the Royal Ballet's guest artist Rudolf Nureyev. "They dance together in a large studio furnished only with a mirror, a barre and a piano," reports a friend of Nureyev. "He puts her through the whole routine of pirouettes and arabesques. He also gives her ballet lifts high on his shoulder. Obviously, it is a marvelous...