Word: dokumentas
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...exhibition displayed its own mediocrity and disorganization, a lesser-known art festival 400-odd miles to the north was preparing to put on a top-grade show. The newer exhibition is at Kassel, where the Brothers Grimm lived, located at the geographic heart of Germany, and it is called Dokumenta...
Housed in the Graustarkian palace ruins of the pomp-crazed nobles of Hesse, Dokumenta III features 1,500 intelligently selected paintings, sculptures and drawings from 250 artists who are either the acknowledged masters or the exploratory frontiersmen of modern art. The shaping hand behind it and the earlier Dokumentas belongs to Professor Arnold Bode, 60, an erudite man with Napoleonic looks and energy who rules Kassel with scrupulous esthetic integrity. A jury of 15 members (four non-Germans, including Peter Selz from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) aided Bode in choosing the entries, but shunned awarding prizes. Qualitative...