Word: criticism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest skirmish in the battle between aesthetes and sociologists has proved inconclusive. Clive Barnes, dance critic for the New York Times, took steps to parry a Harvard sociologist's study of dancing, but his sarcasm couldn't diminish the deadpan humor of the scientist's study...
...PRELUDE: LANDSCAPES, CHARACTERS AND CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. The critic's early career as a wide-ranging man of letters, as well as the end of the cozy, pre-1914 world he grew up in, are both reflected in this fascinating memoir...
...only flaw was the absence of recording microphones to preserve the occasion. "I can't bear the thought that it wasn't recorded," wrote one stricken Paris critic. "If anything should survive after us, it should be such moments...
...once threatened to walk out of his studio when the King tried to watch him sketching la Pompadour. "My talent," he proudly maintained, "belongs to me." Nowhere was it better displayed than in his self-portraits, in which the illusion of reality is so strong, marveled one 18th century critic, that "it seems as though nature had painted itself." One of the three that survive, showing La Tour at his prime at 50 (see color), was auctioned off at Sotheby's in London last week on behalf of a Bolivian diplomat. An anonymous buyer paid...
Tokyo's Masuo Ikeda, 33, gets angry when accused of being un-Japanese. To be sure, it took Western critics to discover him: the sharp eye of a German critic on the judging committee detected his hitherto unrecognized talents at a 1960 Tokyo prints competition. As a result, Ikeda won top honors. Last year Ikeda also walked off with the grand prize for graphics at the Venice Biennale. A show of his prints, currently traveling the U.S. under the sponsorship of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, opened last week at the East Tennessee State University Museum...