Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minor White could have called his photo exhibit, In Search of A New Aesthetic: Be-ingness as Ideal Form. What White means by "be-ingness" is exemplified by the difference in the relationships between the photographer and his model and between the artist and his model. Where the photographer must "energize the subject's lovingness or thought," the artist can depend upon "his artistic talent, his mind and his hand to make the drawn line come alive." Where the artist works from the model, the photographer works with the model. "In his creativity he [the photographer] is, and when...
...EXHIBIT are examples of the artist-photographer who pictures the "nude" as an ideal form of art: Barbara Morgan's photo "Pregnant" (a pregnant woman's torso), if it had been placed next to a reproduction of Van Eyck's Eve from the Ghent Altarpiece, certainly would emphasize the classic form. So would John Brook's "Moon in Leo" if placed next to a similarly entwined Rodin couple. Next to Christine Enos' "Richard" (a man flanked by two statues of Greek goddesses) should have been placed sculpture representations of the Greek god-athlete-man. Goodwin Harding's "emulation...
Inge S. Hoffmann, Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute and co-author of "De Gaulle as a Political Artist" (Daedalus, Summer 1968), disagreed with the other professors' assessment of the impact of de Gaulle's death...
This pays off when the artist takes over an abandoned villa and begins redecorating it. The house's rooms and walls are the ultimate artifact, the residue of man, the set of objects to be read for their cultural significance. Spooky events begin to occur, but the film keeps its virtue for a while and refuses to name a specific thing as the cause of these malicious supernatural events; and thus the film avoids haunted-house cliches and goes, once again very perceptively, to the core of the haunted-house experience: that a house has human meanings built into...
Divorced. Marianne Faithfull, 23, longtime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger; by John Dunbar, 27, American artist and writer; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after five years of marriage, one child; in London. The divorce does not become final for at least three months...