Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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How can TIME cater to artistic platitudes like the work of this "fantastic" Steinberg? Somewhere along the line, artists apparently decided that beauty and expressiveness in a work are old hat, and by masquerading behind secure parodies they can get away with a minimum of thought and effort. O.K., let...
4. Adrien Arpel's 3-Week Crash Makeover/Shapeover Beauty Program, Arpel with Ebenstein (9)
This is John Gardner's argument in his essay On Moral Fiction. It sounds simplistic, and--of course--it is. Gardner poses as the Gabriel for a new artistic responsibility, sternly blasting forth on the trumpet, calling on the forces of "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" to regroup.
THROUGH WHAT he says in these essays Gardner is identifying himself with a long tradition of critics like Matthew Arnold who tried to diagnose the ills of their societies. And Gardner's calls for "Beauty, Truth and Goodness" are not far removed from Arnold's famous celebration of "sweetness and...
On Moral Fiction is worth reading, if only to learn what one of the finest contemporary novelists has to say about his colleagues. One can take from it these insights, a few anecdotes, and perhaps a sense of Gardner himself. But, as Gardner repeats, only art--not criticism--can embody...