Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Witter Bynner, 86, poet-translator who pulled one of U.S. history's most successful literary put-ons; in Santa Fe, N. Mex. Disgusted with the imagist, expressionist and futurist schools of poetry, Bynner in 1916 founded a spurious "spectrist school." Helped by fellow poet Arthur Ficke and a bottle of Scotch a day, he produced in ten days a volume called Spectra, which was praised for two years by eminent critics for such spoofy lines...
Here, as in Nabokov's more sophisticated novels, an important theme is the nature of fiction itself. By putting his comic trio through a series of abstract stances-a modification of the futurist and expressionist influences that swept the arts in the '20s-he never allows the reader to forget that fiction is essentially artifice. In King, Queen, Knave, the artifice may be a little too obvious, but intelligence and wit keep it working smoothly to the end. Nabokov himself could well have been thinking of this "bright brute" when he described a certain variety of butterfly...
...Words; it consisted simply of random words lettered on pieces of paper that spectators were invited to staple at random onto the walls of a room. The idea, Kaprow explains now, was to create an intentionally sloppy, three-dimensional roomful of random art, in the abstract expressionist mode of the 1950s, when the wall-filling action canvases of Jackson Pollock were already being referred to as "environmental painting." Kaprow was also reviving and extending the then quiescent Dadaist tradition. One of his inspirations: the wondrous Merzbau assembled by German Dadaist Kurt Schwitters between 1924 and 1933. It consisted of rooms...
Some of the more satisfying of this season's offerings in Manhattan's smaller theaters: Ergo, a wacky expressionist exercise by Austrian Writer Jakov Lind; In Circles, an aptly named circular play by Gertrude Stein set to circular music by Al Carmines; Iphigenia in Aulis, a Euripedean antiwar drama that has lost little of its force through the centuries; The Indian Wants The Bronx, Israel Horovitz's study of the savagery that can lurk on any street; Your Own Thing, a marvelously modern, inventive and sophisticated rock version of Twelfth Night...
...first piece installed in the Adams House Library is an oil painting by abstract-expressionist Bernard Dufford (1922-1956) entitled "Composition...