Word: baur
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...promoting new ones. A revisionist ecstasy is in the air, and one of the more important artists to benefit from it (if posthumously) is Sculptor Elie Nadelman. A definitive retrospective of some 150 sculptures and drawings opened last week at the Whitney Museum, organized by Art Historian John Baur, director of the Whitney until his retirement last year...
...characteristically understated and laconic fashion, the Scots about five years ago began to feel a new sense of confidence. "The Nationalists," says Edinburgh Journalist Chris Baur, "began meeting all over the country, gathering in groups of 15 or 20, just talking about policy and the issues and enjoying themselves." North Sea oil, with its promise of doubling the country's revenues from whisky (some $250 million annually in sales to the U.S. alone), ships, foodstuffs and tartan knits, became the Nationalists' crunching argument. With annual profits of $1.5 billion expected to flow in from the North...
...Whitney's director, John Baur, agreed "because black artists have been so neglected." To organize the show, the Museum appointed Doty, who is white but had directed three earlier one-man shows by blacks at the Whitney. The B.E.C.C. asked that "a black expert on black culture" be hired as guest curator along with Doty. In a prodigious diplomatic error, the Whitney refused. Its grounds were those of precedent. "Only three of our shows in the past forty years," a museum spokesman explained, "have been organized by guest experts." But Baur did agree to consult black experts "wherever feasible...
...abstractionist: "From the outset of the show, we felt it was going to be disastrous because of the confusion of race and aesthetics." He sought out Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under Secretary-General at the United Nations, who sympathized with them. Bunche went with Johnson and Williams to confer with Baur at the Whitney. Was the museum, Dr. Bunche asked, specifically involved with aesthetics or polemics? Aesthetics, Baur replied. "Then why," Bunche inquired, "are you doing a black show?" William Williams puts the issue more bluntly. "We say any museum show ought to be about aesthetics, scholarship, quality. They say this...
...since the Whitney's efforts to reflect black American art have been demonstrably earnest. Says Dealer Reese Palley, who shows both Williams and Johnson: "The Whitney is in a totally unresolvable situation in which there can be no heroes. As far as I am concerned, the Whitney and Baur have been perfectly proper in all their approaches to the black community, and did everything in their power to make the show a success...