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Perhaps not. But increasingly, well-known playwrights are using legal pressure to insist that their intentions are respected. Last week Arthur Miller for the second time forced an avant-garde Manhattan theater troupe, the Wooster Group, to stop using portions of his play The Crucible in a production called L.S.D. In August, Edward Albee compelled a Texas stage company, Theater Arlington, to cut short its revival of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The production had converted Albee's squabbling heterosexual couples into a quartet of gay men. The director points to the oft-repeated rumor that this was Albee...
...group's influence, its value should not be underestimated. Ideas, like less durable products, reach the public through a network of production and distribution. Raw materials are imported and fabricated by artists and scholars. The newest images and thought are offered in galleries and boutique periodicals. Eventually the avant-garde attracts the journalists, and the elite get to take an uncertain bow be fore the philistines...
...voyages to Paris' Left Bank made an equally deep impression. He was influenced by avant-garde poets like Guillaume
Vincent was ill when he arrived in Aries, jittery from booze, racked with smoker's cough. He had expected, curiously enough, that the place would look like one of the Japanese prints by Hokusai or Utamaro that had been circulating among avant-garde painters in Paris. In a way it did: the ground was covered with snow, like the top of Fuji. But soon it (and he) melted, and in his letters no less than in his paintings one sees the colors that sign his Arlesian period, the yellow, ultramarine and mauve. In the late spring, "the landscape gets...
...avant-garde not start imitating it before about...