Word: artists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five years, a lanky sociologist from Fort Worth named William McLean prowled the boulevards, side streets, courtyards, back alleys and pissoirs of Paris, camera at the ready. Whenever he spotted an erotic representation of the human body or its genitalia, scratched by some anonymous artist in the soft limestone and plaster of which so much of Paris is built, he captured it on film. Sorbonne-trained McLean's collection, suitably surrounded by a scholarly text on the subject of erotic folk-art forms and published under the imposing title of L'Iconographie Populaire de L'Erotisme...
...found in ancient Etruscan art); assorted schematic representations of the vulva; and the Valentine heart-a symbol that McLean believes is more erotic than sentimental. Typically, the heart symbol, if it survives long enough on the wall, gets further embellishment; someone adds an arrow, and then later another resourceful artist converts the heart into a rude approximation of the female posterior...
...German, Grass is a nonconformist in more important ways. His country reveres specialization. Grass has exuberantly sprawled out as minor poet, polemical dramatist, artist, sculptor and jazz musician. He has persistently made fun of the Establishment and the past. In the matter of language, he is a total revolutionary. Too often in Germany, culture has suggested lofty abstractions and an aristocratic style. Grass has always liked to stand the German language on its head and shake it. The result is Rabelaisian horselaughs, horrifying images and earthy sights, smells and sounds that make his visions of yesterday as immediate...
...Artist Franz Walther will teach adventurous spectators to use his object instruments in space to further self-exploration, and there remains a possibility that environmentalist James Rosenquist will appear to experiment with the psycho-visual-atmosphere. Poetry and prose will be considered on separate evenings by such widely divergent figures as poet-critic-author-cultural hero Stephen Spender (The Year of the Young Rebels), and that flamboyant sports-caster of CBS television-Heywood Hale Broun. The Arts Festival will also feature piano recitals by Joseph Block and Armenta Adams, and will conclude its final weekend with a Quincy House production...
...Creditors banging at the door, an over-sexed matron after the rent, Rolfe drones away at his avocation of writing. After shuffling through one assumed identity after another all his life, he has little to comfort him but a purple neckscarf and his selfesteem. Besides his disappointments as an artist, his principal frustration is the failure to secure a "vocation" in the Church of Rome, to which he converted "overnight" at the age of 26. Not even a lowly "clerk" let alone a prelate, this blustery paranoid and repressed homosexual aspires to be the first English Pontiff since Breakspear...