Word: brautiganisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abortion by Richard Brautigan...
...needle their audience with the suggestion that art, like experience, is inconsistent stuff, vulnerable and quirky, full of tackiness and paradox. Best known among them is a lanky, mercurial artist named William T. Wiley, 34, who lives and works outside San Francisco in a frame house with (shades of Brautigan!) a trout stream flowing beside it. His traveling show, organized by the University Art Museum in Berkeley, opens this week at the Art Institute of Chicago...
They played with the frenzied amphetamine energy of post-Savio Berkeley. The Dead, along with the Airplane and Quicksilver, beat the rhythms for Kesey, Brautigan and Co., those self-conscious saviors of the Western mind. Yet the music was always theirs alone, and through it all they maintained a musical identity distinct from the political stamp which eventually blotted out any trace of individuality among the so-called Volunteers of America...
...long as Brautigan stays light his talent for whimsy can carry him along. But when the jester feels it necessary to make a serious point his pretentiousness and predictability are unbearable. He stretches a tasteless metaphor about a 24-hour pig slaughter house into the five paragraph "A Complete History of Germany and Japan." In another piece Brautigan sits in a Times Square movie house next to a cliched man, "fat, about fifty years old, balding sort of and his face was completely minus any human sensitivity." Brautigan compares him to a dog in the cartoon. Not only...
...Brautigan is incapable of successfully moving beyond his charm. He speaks with the same precise and creative tone as Buddy Glass but there is no backbone to these episodes. His lack of context limits him to musings that are Salinger's style but not his content. "A High Building In Singapore" remains just a funny remark overheard on a San Francisco street while Buddy's run-in with the little girl at the lamb chop counter has a significance to Salinger's fictional world that goes beyond the immediate narrative. One author has involved himself to capacity in the life...