Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were even sidewalk superintendents-interested museumgoers who were invited to watch the artist at work. "We've dispensed with a formal opening so people can see how such large-scale sculpture gets here in the first place," says Marcia Tucker, the Associate Curator who organized the show. "Morris is dealing with ways of perceiving that are native to us all, with the feeling of gravity pulling things down, with the sense of size and weight, with things that fall and collapse. This way the public can take part in the process...
...together killed no fewer than 228,478 animals, including more than 110,000 deer. Birkner had none of the great compositional powers of Cranach or Velasquez, both of whom painted accounts of the chase. But Casimir could not have wished for a more faithful descriptive artist. Birkner spared no blood or gore, and no detail escaped his eye. At the same time, he had a charming ability to enhance the pageantry and develop from the hunt's complicated rituals a sense of overall design and patterning, that same delicate blend of description and naivete that marks the best...
...character whose adventures make up most of the novel's action. Mr. Jiveass Nigger himself, is a young black from the rural South with the unfortunate name of...well...George Washington. Jiveass is a first degree con artist, a black stud who lives off white women and weaves a reality out of the lives he hands off to the world at large. The lies succeed in ripping off everyone but himself, and so he leaves America for Denmark hoping to find out if there is any way to survive without the lies, to see if there is "any mother fucker...
Lately, he has also crossed the most sacred boundary of all: the one that separates the German literary artist from politics. By custom, Germans expect a soulful aloofness from intellectuals. Art is enduring, a thing apart, not to be contaminated by the daily, dirty round of politics. Naturally, the last thing that Germans expect of a writer is that he will paint a rooster crowing "Es-Pe-De" (for Social Democratic Party) on the side of a secondhand Volkswagen bus and vulgarly, vulgarly bounce thousands of miles through West Germany campaigning for Willy Brandt. Last summer Grass did just that...
...theater two plays, The Quare Fellow and The Hostage, that have already shown a durable vitality. He also wrote an autobiography of his late teens called Borstal Boy. Though it lacks the density, scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic family album in which the elder Behan (Niall Toibin) sits at the edge of the stage and acts as a kind of chorus commentator...