Word: baroquen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gross. A work like June Leafs Ascension of Pig Lady, of which Woman-Theater, 1968, is a detail, is as nearly without formal interest as a work of art can be. Lush, coarse and obesely theatrical, it makes Red Grooms look like Mondrian. Gladys Nilsson's punningly titled Baroquen Oats (broken oats? baroque notes?) is a joyful orgy of animal, or at least four-legged, shapes, tumbling over and around one another: the debt to late Dubuffet is obvious, but the sense of an all-American Walpurgisnacht is Nilsson...
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