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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kupka's oeuvre remains in the suburbs of art. The paintings reflect the currents of the time; they imitate, sometimes innovate, but they lack that certain force of original expression. Kupka is unwilling to take his experiments with line, color or form all the way; he tends to eschew the radical for the pleasing. Perhaps as a result of this tentative quality, he never developed a style of his own. Though his paintings can be grouped into "periods" and arranged in chronological sequence--as has been done at the Guggenheim show, which closed last week--these periods are not stages...
...paintings show Kupka's sizeable vocabulary of line and color, the grammatical expertise of his construction, and the complexity of the thought he is trying to convey. But the majority of the works fail to make an artistic statement. It's hard to pinpoint Kupka's shortcomings. Certainly he had a clearly defined idea of his art (even if it's hard to follow...
...CONCERTO FOR CELLO (Lynn Harrell, cellist; London Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; RCA; $6.98). Its jubilant fire, four-seasons color and unstrained lyric impulse make this the finest cello concerto ever written. The fast-emerging Harrell recalls the heroic eloquence of the late Emanuel Feuermann, and the peripatetic Levine, soon to become music director of the Metropolitan Opera, offers a brilliant reminder that Dvořák wrote the work for orchestra as well as cello...
Socialism is not the alternative to fascism. Socialism is hardly even an alternative to fascism. Fascism is socialism, let us recall, of a particularly reprehensible variety often referred to as national socialism (or nazism for short). The color of the uniform may differ, but the intolerance for deviationists does...
...outnumber whites on some teams and account for about a third of the N.F.L.'s 1,100 players. For another, equality of position is accepted, quarterback, the last major barrier, has fallen with the Los Angeles Rams black starter James Harris. "It's a competitive game," says White, "and color isn't a factor...