Word: artworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thank you, for Art Critic Robert Hughes, who wrote this week's Essay on collecting. Says Hughes, who has received his share of free samples from would-be-but-weren't Picassos: "I'll accept anything anybody chooses to give me, except unsolicited artwork...
...incompatible necessities, becomes simultaneously prominent and invisible. It can no longer speak as it once spoke. It is asked to become not an object of contemplation, but a spectacle. In the show-biz world that replaces the more subtle processes of art appreciation, there are two kinds of artwork, Treasures and Masterpieces. Anyone can tell the difference. Treasures have gold in them, Masterpieces...
...group, and had even come up with a name and a rough design for an album cover. It was abandoned when Moon and Entwistle returned to The Who soon after the quarrel, but the idea was not entirely forgotten. The name of their projected group, along with similar artwork, appeared on an album by a new band called Led Zeppelin...
...Aliki unravels the secrets of ba, the ancient Egyptian concept of the soul, and ka, the invisible twin of the deceased. Both ba and ka wandered after death, and they could only return to a recognizable body-hence the art of preservation. Aliki's crisp narrative and delicate artwork never veer toward necrology; her interest is in the living past, and her guidebook flatters both the child who receives it and the giver who puts it under the pyramid-shaped tree...
...exaggeration is permissible; the paintings are by Leonard Baskin, and the highly charged text is by his children, Tobias, Lucretia and Hosie, and his wife Lisa. All of them are manifestly dazed by the artwork. With good reason. A renowned graphic artist and sculptor, Baskin Sr. limns a whole aviary of familiar birds. But his subjects' eyes seem to burn through the pages, and the rendering of their beaks and feathers makes even the common robin and crow seem birds of paradise...