Word: colors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marks of the process by which it was made. Another term is "conceptual art," for in every case, the concept behind the piece is infinitely more impressive than the workmanship. And "conceptual art," everybody agrees, is deliberately made hard to understand: subtle, cerebral, elusive, private, intense (see color pages...
Minimal Sculptor Robert Morris, 37, argues that the new compulsion to record the process owes much to action painters like Jackson Pollock, whose huge drip canvases were a tapestry of color-and a record of the act. "Pollock had no heirs in the 1950s," says Morris. "But now people are involved with the physicality of art, in the all-overness, the aggressiveness of the medium, in, the material having its own properties...
...leering quality of the ads ("Parents: because of certain revealing scenes . . . we suggest you see Helga first!!!") rather than the sterling quality of the plot, a simplistic, sun-filled narrative of wedded bliss. The highlight of Helga is the birth of a baby, shot straight on in gaseous color. The scene, filmed at a university clinic, has all the craftsmanship of an Army training short, but it does have an undeniable effect on audiences. "The reaction everywhere is the same," confides a publicist for the film. "As soon as the head of the baby appears from a wave of blood...
Alice said she is never upset by the band's occasionally off-color antics. "There was a time when they apologized any time somebody said 'damn,' but they ignore me now. Half the things I don't understand, and a lot of the things that I do understand I just don't hear any more. Like the show at the Princeton game this year--I didn't understand that, and anybody who did had a dirty mind...
Rosemary's Baby--Dangerously misdirected by Roman Polanski, irritatingly acted by Mia Farrow and John Cassavetes, shoddily filmed in grainly bleached-out color, vehemently hated by your friendly Crimson reviewer, but far-and-away the most popular film of the year. See for yourself. At the ESQUIRE, Mass. Ave. on the Boston side of Harvard Square...