Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There have been several others in our generation who have celebrated the world around them, but none with that inevitability where the poetry penetrated every pore of the canvas to the very last touch of the brush For Avery was a great poet-inventer who had invented sonorities never seen nor heard before. From these we have learned much and will learn more for a long time to come...
Faculty Cut. N.Y.U. could use some of that support. One of the largest private universities in the nation, it has an enrollment of nearly 40,000 students and is just recovering from a brush with fiscal disaster. In 1972 N.Y.U. faced a $7.9 million deficit, and the trustees had to embark on an austerity drive. They sold the university's second campus, ten miles uptown from the main campus in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, dropped its engineering school, and cut the full-time faculty from 2,200 to 1,965. This year the deficit is down...
Adams is absolutely first-rate at making the reader feel the river mist on his face, feel the brush of wet leaves across the skin of arms and thighs, or smell the stench of a sodden bear. This extraordinary ability to evoke physical detail carries the book to whatever success it has. Where the author seems weak is in the sentimentality of his conceptions. These shape what is not meant to be a children's tale into a kind of pretentious adolescent bluff: a tragic chronicle of conquest, corruption and decline that dribbles off into happily-ever-after...
...Hair, More than any other cultural production of the decade, it summed up in a nest, consumable package the morality of a generation; the experimentation with sense and mind-expanding drugs, the filing with commune living, the brush with hippie hedonism, the swing with the sexual pulsation of rock music, the espousal of free love, the protest against the military-industrial complex, the let-it-all-hang-out of the be-in. The cult of hair...
Paint, in Bacon's hands, acquires a strict and intimidating richness. Working in fast oval loops of the brush, he can give the skin of his nudes a kind of granular density, a thickness of imagined substance, that is quite old-masterly. The flesh is loose, but it is all structure too; and when the form beneath it slides away, obliterated by a wipe of the rag, Bacon can instantly tighten the image back with one detail - an eye, a patch of spiky hair like hedgehog quills. To a degree few other painters can rival, Bacon convinces you that...