Word: avant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pure Dirt. In enlightened 1968, even New York's moderately avant-garde critics are prepared to agree with Tuttle that yes, indeed all this may be art. But what kind of art? Some call it "antiform," for its outlines-or rather, its conspicuous efforts to avoid them. Others call it "process art," for it proudly shows off the marks of the process by which it was made. Another term is "conceptual art," for in every case, the concept behind the piece is infinitely more impressive than the workmanship. And "conceptual art," everybody agrees, is deliberately made hard to understand...
...been hidden at the New York Public Library. Only a few people have known that it is there. Eliot himself believed it to be lost, and is thought to have hoped for oblivion for it. It was exploded last week with the publication of a biography of an avant-garde patron, New York Lawyer John Quinn. He owned the Eliot document, and his estate turned the material over to the library. It will take many sabbatical years of the Eliotian scholastic industry to measure the full meaning of the work...
Final Word. Similar positions have already been reached by the hierarchies of The Netherlands, West Germany and Belgium. As usual, the bishops of Holland's avant-garde church were the first to take issue with the Pope. Only three days after the encyclical was issued, the Dutch episcopate declared: "Personal conscience cannot lightly pronounce itself on an encyclical of such authority, but personal conscience has the final word." West Germany's bishops conceded that "a Catholic Christian might have serious reasons for wanting to deviate" from the Pope's teaching. The Belgian episcopate ruled that any Catholic...
...Mysteries and Smaller Pieces mysteriously proves, the Living Theater is a shock-troop army of the avant-garde dedicated to overthrowing the Establishment and conventional drama. Founded and led by Julian Beck and Judith Malina, the company had a modest off-Broadway success until it was closed down by the Internal Revenue Service in a 1963 dispute over back taxes. The troupe has been touring Europe ever since (TIME, Dec. 1, 1967). Last week it reappeared at the Yale School of Drama...
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