Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt there have been some art critics who wished, in self-indulgent moments, that art history were neater than it is, that the work fitted the pet theory more smoothly. The sight of a critic physically altering an artist's work to conform to his own ideas about it is, mercifully, almost unknown. But it happened recently-to David Smith, who died in 1965 and is probably the greatest sculptor in U.S. history. Readers of this month's Art in America were electrified to learn from an article by Art Historian Rosalind Krauss that since Smith...
Once George Seferis wrote that it is the plight of an artist who grew on a harsh and secluded bit of earth to throw bottles into the sea, without complaint for a greater reward. Whether the mediterranean land that claimed him is any less remote to us now, the life this poet spent on it doesn't need to be. This bottle is worth finding...
...produce such trunk-sized novels as Hawaii and The Source. In Centennial, Michener begins with the first faint primordial stirrings on the face of the deep and slogs onward through the ages until he hits the day before yesterday. He is the Will Durant of novelists, less an artist than a kind of historical compacter...
...courtesy call to the commander's office turned out to be a reporters' briefing, designed to prevent errors in reporting. A large artist's easel in the corner of a carpeted room held about ten posterboard diagrams, each bearing at the top the official seal of the WACS. The commanding officer, pointer in hand, whipped through the structure of the army, the structure of the base, the format of training, and the mission of the army. My notes for that briefing include: "WAC basic training: 1) battalion--basic training brigade--company--unit...." The rest went by too fast...
Davenport brings a curious new genre to literature: short historical fiction. In dispensing with the burdens of longer historical novels, Tatlin! presents an exciting array of portraits including Franz Kafka, Herakleitos, an ancient Greek philosopher, Vladimir Tatlin, a Russian artist, Henry Breuil, a French anthropologist, and minor sketches of Picasso, Chagall, Lenin and Stalin...