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...footnote to your story on luminal art [April 28]: In November 1963, the Corcoran Gallery presented a show called "Design in Light" that may have been the earliest exhibit of luminal art. The artist was a Washingtonian, William Bechhoefer, who developed his technique in the Visual Art Center at Harvard. His technique was described as follows...
...rest of the book. Some of the names Kazin discusses are still familiar--Mary McCarthy, Malcolm Cowley, William Saroyan, and James T. Farrell; others, like those of V.F.Calverton, editor of the Marxist Modern Monthly. Otis Ferguson, the ex-sailor who worked on the New Republic, and Francis Corcoran, a pietistic Catholic who also managed to be a Communist, mean nothing to people who can hardly remember the early '50's. But all were part of the literary-political world of Alfred Kazin and all were part...
Every other year, Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art has a large show of contemporary American paintings, valiantly tries to name the four best. For this year's show, the Corcoran invited 21 artists to submit their work; it selected 21 more entrants via open competition. The winners, picked by three top museum directors, were all cool, imageless (no pop), and all by invitees...
...idea that snowmobiling is for sissies. Says a Canadian doctor: "When I go out in the winter I exercise myself, not a machine." Many resorts now ban them from the regular ski runs because hot-rodders lacerate the slopes, menace skiers, and make too much noise. Says Tom Corcoran, 33, who owns New Hampshire's new Waterville Valley resort: "People go skiing to get away from cities and enjoy the quiet; the last thing they want is a lot of motors going." But complaints will not make them go away. There are just too many people who like...
...prosper," says Rickey, "but it becomes no clearer what art is. To present a Swedish roller bearing as art is at least as plausible as Warhol's presenting a commercial container." Rickey's difference, as the current exhibition of 75 of his works in Washington's Corcoran Gallery of Art demonstrates, lies in subordinating the precision bearing to the pure expression of what it is meant to supply-freedom of movement. He divorces the machine from function and allows it to do what is natural for it. Says he: "In a mechanized environment a machine that...