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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reception room of Dean Glimp's office, ??? girl stood with blood trickling down from a cu??? in the center of her forehead. A state trooper ??? stepped up, and like an artist evaluating a profile, ??? placed his left hand on her shoulder and steadied ??? her chin with ?s thumb. The tenderness of his ??? grasp was deceiving. With his free hand, he raised ??? his long club over his head, and with a deliberateness which belied the force of his blow, brought ??? the club crashing down on the girl's head. The ??? force of the swing nearly lifted the trooper from ?? the floor...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Books The Harvard Strike | 5/1/1970 | See Source »

...QUESTION of what to paint continually haunts a contemporary artist. The monumental canvases of recent years have been stripped to rectangles of few colors with a minimum of activity inside the frame. The constant purifying of the medium leads to the dilemma of what can come next. Frank Stella, a particularly inventive artist, has opened painting in a new direction by changing the traditional shape of the canvas. In the process of experiment, his paintings have led him beyond the rectangular frame to shapes of triangle, rectangle, and circle...

Author: By Cynthia Saltzman, | Title: Art Frank Stella At the Museum of Modern Art until May 31 | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...label of Minimal Art has latched onto Stella's work. He makes enormous paintings-with surfaces as smooth as a car. Flat color without a shadow is neatly placed within ruled or compassed lines so that no trace of the artist's hand remains. He could command a computer to execute it. But a startling combination of geometrical forms makes his pictures look different from the other Minimal Artists...

Author: By Cynthia Saltzman, | Title: Art Frank Stella At the Museum of Modern Art until May 31 | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

Tchaikovsky once wrote to his patroness Nadezhda von Meek: "A creative artist leads a double life, one part of it being human, the other artistic. They do not always coincide." They still don't. The real question is which Tchaikovsky will turn up on the Late Show (munch, crunch) ten years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Wahnderful Tchaikovsky | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

Calculating Man. At 43, Wunderlich acts more like a successful stockbroker than a bizarre artist. He wheels around Hamburg in an expensive British car, wears imported shirts and shoes, often paints wearing a necktie. He likes money and does not hesitate to say so. He declares with a playful glint in his eye: "I am accused of being a calculating man, and I am. I know that there are very few graphic artists in the world who are as good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Beauty in the Bizarre | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

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