Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dull-eyed descendants in the corporate board room who have monopolized the American way of thinking. "What's good for General Motors is good for the country" seemed like a worthy precept to everyone, except all those strident moralists and crackpot spiritual athletes who thought otherwise. The artist, of course, was always in this small group of dissidents, and, if he didn't go off to Europe seeking art for art's sake, he spent most of his time at home pointing out the dilemmas of a society whose sole motivation is blind greed. It was the playwright who exploited...
...disgust for him in her diary, she seems to have been egging him on. Her distaste seems to have been rooted in her allying him with her father, with authority, discipline, and history, all of the powers which fill her with terror. "Father, man, critic, enemy of the artist," she says...
Against Vacuity. Caravaggio looks curiously modern as an artist, though he died 31 centuries ago. His work became a line of cleavage between the "modernists" and conservatives of Rome. For in the 1590s, when Caravaggio first settled there, Roman art had descended into glassy, learned vacuity. Painters were still traumatized by the memory of Michelangelo, a figure of such bulk that there seemed no way past him; at the same time, the Counter Reformation demanded an elevated, moralized tone from its artists. The result had nothing to offer Caravaggio-who was not, in any case, a particularly educated...
...that its people are cut off from the rest of the world but that they are cut off from themselves. "Sympathy cannot penetrate real desperation," Miss Cornelisen writes. That can stand as her last word for San Basilio-and for the honorable failure of a first-rate artist...
...beautiful body. Adam's attentions have turned toward the Orion, a new model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local Bonwit-Teller's. Brett DeLosanto, meanwhile, is facing the classic dilemma of the artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should he flee to California and make sculptures out of automobile parts? And poor emerson Vale--consumer crusader and author of "The American Car: Unsure in Any Need"--why, the man clearly has a fixation of seat belts and exhaust pipes...