Word: dwan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proves a sorely needed text in a field glutted by Citadel's The Films Of ... series and Zwemmer's inaccurate historical catalogues masquerading as critical history. The stories are fast and funny, the cast of characters incomparable: Brownlow discusses many people of whom we knew much too little -- Allan Dwan, Charles Rosher, Louise Brooks (who was I think the screen's most beautiful actress), Abel Gance, and Josef von Sternberg, to name a few. The many fascinating production stills are superbly reproduced, largely hitherto unanthologized, and consequently render the book an invaluable as well as significant reference
...from algae to soft obelisks, and constructions incorporating words, photographs, chicken wire, sulphur and thin air. In September Manhattan was treated to the spectacle of James Lee Byars, 36, parading more than 300 votaries along East 66th Street in a communal robe. There were the "earthworks" artists at the Dwan Gallery, who had assembled works replete with peat and petroleum jelly. Meanwhile, their leader, Walter de Maria, 33, was filling three rooms of a Munich gallery with eight tons of "pure dirt, pure earth, pure land...
Ever since artists took to proclaiming that anything is art if the artist says it is, critics have been wondering where the brush would strike next. The instrument they had to fear was the shovel. In Manhattan's Dwan Gallery, the newest frontier is called "Earthworks," and the ingredients on display include dirt, worms, rocks, photographs and written descriptions. "Our original idea," explains the gallery's earth mother, Virginia Dwan, "was just to show earth as a medium, but it's difficult to know where to draw the line...
...Yale School of Architecture to design ways in which earth evacuated for superhighways could be molded or mounded. Robert Morris has received a $10,000 commission from the students of Northwestern University to landscape a landfill between the campus and Lake Michigan. As for his mix at the Dwan Gallery, Morris has priced it at $3 a pound. If no buyers show up, he could not care less. Right now what rivets him is the beauty of the butterscotch-colored grease-and the fact that a small plant has taken root in the earth...
Poetic Package. Currently on display at Manhattan's Dwan Gallery are 41 works consisting mostly of words or scale drawings. Among them is one work titled Art as Idea as Idea, which is simply a photographic blowup of the dictionary definition of real. It is the end product of Joseph Kosuth's struggle with the artistic problem of defining what "the real thing is." Says Kosuth gravely: "I think the importance of all art is its ideas." Japanese-born Shusaku Arakawa shows a canvas on which is handwritten a recipe for banana cake. Who, after all, could show...