Word: colorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Europeans, who have learned in recent years to look to the U.S. for stimulus (and a canny guide to future taste in the art markets), the U.S. pavilion was a disappointment. There were no minimal sculptors, no color-field painters, no visceral assemblages in the style of Edward Kienholz. Instead, under...
...Color-television manufacturers so underestimated their market-figuring that it would build as slowly as black and white television did-that they were unable to keep up with sales. Now one bottleneck has been solved with increased production of picture tubes and another by stepping up the output of cabinets. But if anything goes wrong with the set, the owner will soon discover that there is a drastic shortage of people...
Latvian-born Sven Lukin, 34, also distorts perspective to reflect the pressures of Manhattan life. Of his grey and pink Squeeze, he explains: "Think of tender flesh squeezed under an environment that is all speed, cement and cars. Grey is an urban color." Squeeze seems to loom above the viewer far larger than its actual eight feet because its vanishing point is situated a foot or so below the painting, in what is known as "worm's-eye perspective." Traditionally, perspective was used to make a painting seem to open a window into the wall; Lukin uses the technique...
...refused the right to practice in full-facility hospitals that require membership in A.M.A.-affiliated county medical societies. Last week the A.M.A. finally faced up to the problem by calling for changes in the association bylaws that would subject any affiliate that denies membership on the grounds of "color, creed, race, religion or ethnic origin," to dismissal...
...A.M.A. amendments committee sought to shelve last week's resolution against the color bar, but the organization's 242 delegates passed the resolution almost unanimously. At the same time, the association installed a California gastroenterologist, Dwight Locke Wilbur, as president and elected a Manhattan insurance-company physician, Gerald Dale Dorman, to succeed Dr. Wilbur in 1969. Both men are unusually liberal, in medical terms; their selection holds promise of even broader reform of the once-mossbacked A.M.A...