Word: context
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What are these paintings when placed in the Stein context...
...Context directs the statement of any art work. How do we view The Great Gatsby after reading Ulysses? Is Fitzgerald the same after reading The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby? Today's conceptual artists specify context where previously most artists have not. Just putting works into an exhibit puts works in context: does a painting of an apple look the same when in Gertrude Stein's collection as when in the collection of the President of Del Monte canned foods? Yet how we arrange paintings within the exhibition creates smaller contextual elements clarifying and defining the larger whole; these...
...Lori Heineman as their young faculty-party acquaintances, Nick and Honey, work well under the requirements of this changing dimension. Much of the success of the Atma production of Virginia Woolf depends on the four actors' ability to alter their speech, motions, and emotions in the constantly changing context of their characters' drunkenness, and on the ability of their director, Sam Shamshack, to guide them in doing this...
...apocalyptic, which means that human or institutional failings of any kind can become the occasion for total refusal, so that whatever is solid and firm in our tradition is abandoned along with whatever is corrupt." Stating his apocalyptic vision at the start, Brustein uses it as the context for a criticism of everything from Kingman Brewster to the Living Theatre...
...political nature of the CRR. Predictably, the two radical student members of the Committee will readily talk about that issue. But Martin Kilson, a Faculty representative, also discussed the matter candidly. "There is no doubt we are political, because we are in a situation which arose in a political context," Kilson said. "Our findings will also have political implications." At the Schwartz interview, annoyed by complaints of the radical students that Schwartz was being asked questions on his political beliefs and that such questions were irrelevant to his case for readmission, Kilson said, "Come on, don't kid yourself, this...