Word: evens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Short on recipes (fewer than 100 in all), long on pictures (Alice in low-cut dress, shot from above; Alice in tight-fitting pants suit, shot from below), the cookbook is hardly aimed at self-styled Escoffiers or even Julia Children. "Recipes aren't as important as the philosophy behind them," says the author. "Good food is food you eat with your friends, when everybody is having a good time. So making sure that everyone is having a good time is the key to a successful meal...
...kind of exploration of the precondition of myth, the psychophysical necessity that brought it into being and confirms its enduring validity. Grotowski begins by stripping away everything that he regards as the excess baggage of drama -makeup, props, lighting effects, music, scenery, a conventional stage. He even strips away a good part of the audience, never allowing it to number over 100 and sometimes as low as 40. He also has a very precise idea about what that audience should be like: "We do not cater to the man who goes to the theater to satisfy a social need...
Hoffman eloquently described desegregation as "a very small down payment on an investment whose dividends are good citizenship, justice and the welfare of the nation." The judge proudly notes that his words were quoted "around the world-even in the English language newspaper in Jerusalem...
...focused on what he sees as the central figures in the international modernist tradition. Given this definition, however, it is hard to see why he left out such major artists as Naum Gabo, Louise Nevelson, Sam Francis, Mark Tobey, William Baziotes, Richard Lindner, Larry Rivers, Marisol and Lee Bontecou. Even so, with 406 works by 43 artists, Geldzahler has assembled the most exhaustive survey ever of the period...
Joseph Cornell, in a rejection of the big, the bold, the conventionally beautiful, cultivated a secret garden of everyday artifacts. The melancholy strain resurfaces in George Segal's Gas Station and Andy Warhol's photomontage of an electric chair. Even in a painting like Barnett Newman's Anna's Light, for all the persuasive warmth in which it wraps the spectator, nothing can alter the fact that there is only emptiness on Newman's horizon...