Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bloody Marys for breakfast, screwdrivers for lunch, more drinks in the afternoon, leave the hotel at 6, makeup at 8, interview, onstage at 10, hamburgers at a diner, second show at 1, drive home at 3, early-morning party, pass out. A rock artist lives like a modern marathon dancer. Janis craved every bit of the action: "Hey, man, what...
...trio of experts (Konrad Oberhuber, Jay Levenson and Jacquelyn Sheehan), brings together some 200 examples, ranging from masterpieces like Andrea Mantegna's Entombment of Christ to a cheery bit of erotica (involving a girl who bears a startling resemblance to Alice in Wonderland) by an anonymous North Italian artist of the late 15th century. This is the kind of thing major museums ought to be about, when they are not distracted by show biz and self-puffery. One sees the print discovering its own nature and destiny as copper engraving changed from popular illustration to the status...
...have found it difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed curtain...
Cather stuck by all these cosseting convictions. In an essay on fiction, she dismisses much of what has given the novel its vitality: any detail about commerce, labor, manufacturing, cooking, clothing and above all, "physical sensations." To her an artist's "power of observation was but a low part of his equipment." She unfortunately limited her own work by filtering priceless powers of observation through a kind of rigid moral nostalgia...
...work throughout the album is inconsistent, remarkable from a man responsible for the opening lick to "Domino," something that is in my Guitarists Hall of Fame next to the beginning of "Smoke on the Water.") The song's bitterness stands out, and it is a measure of the artist's bitterness that he is unable to articulate...