Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...looking grim there for a while, say around the time of the feature documentary on Artist David Hockney with the scene of all those naked young men jumping into a swimming pool in slow motion. During its second and final week, however, the New York Film Festival pulled itself together and recovered smartly. Notes on some of the more outstanding selections...
...dedicated to an orchestra of skillful semi-professionals in Denver. This wonderful documentary tells the story of an extraordinary musician's life-how she survived with spirit ind intelligence, how she was scarred out not humbled by the problem of being both a woman and an artist in America. The result is a film that is both a testament and a tribute. Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman is much the best example so far of a new feminist consciousness in movies, a statement that is clear and direct, fiercely calm and moving. There is not a moment...
What kind of an option does a dead artist have...
...follow. Brico's answer came back crystal clear--"I would have given up that odious distinction to have conducted more." That is perhaps a hard thing for us to hear. We would rather think our martyrs find a comfort in their roles. But Brico is first and last an artist--and implicit in the film is the loss we have all incurred by sending a musician in to do a revolutionary's dirty work...
...drew the kind of startled stares that pop art has been receiving in the West for more than a decade. Although organizers had promised that there would be no overtly anti-Soviet or religious art, there was one surrealist still life boldly titled Homage to Pasternak, and another artist caused an ideological stir by exhibiting a psychedelic portrait of Jesus. After taking a stroll through the exhibit, Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko remarked: "I see some good pictures, some bad ones and some mediocre ones, but the most important fact is that they are here in the first place...