Word: eye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many Yugoslavs believe that Brezhnev, with an eye toward his pet project, a European Security Conference, may have prevailed upon the Bulgarians to make a few concessions in the interests of Balkan amity. What worries the Yugoslavs is that once the conference is held the Soviets will return to their old game of permitting the Bulgarians to harass Yugoslavia over the Macedonian question...
...Goodman, let fall some acerbic sidelights on conductors he has known. Willem Mengelberg: "A very arrogant man. I think he was sure he looked like Beethoven." Artur Rodzinski: "The kind of fellow who made the musicians give him a birthday party at his own house." Seiji Ozawa: "An audience eye-catcher. More than that I can't say about him." Well, one thing more: "He's an egomaniac." Tympanist Goodman's own weakness-or perhaps strength-is a Casey Stengelian war with words. Conductor Lorin Maazel recalls Goodman's indignation over the original acoustics in Lincoln...
Philip Wofford, at 36, is scarcely an abstract painter at all. The pictures in his current exhibition at SoHo's Emmerich Gallery all involve the general experience, if not the detail, of landscape-not as seen by the eye's perspective, with sky at the top and earth below, but as though taken apart and rewoven into an expansive shifting pattern of space. Wofford, who teaches art at Bennington College, regards a visit he paid to the Southwest in 1968 as one of the key experiences in his work-especially some nights he spent camping on the edge...
...that remains stable; I don't want viewers to be able to lock into a basic color and say, for certain, that this or that painting is red or blue." In works like Sapphire, 1971, the fluttering accumulation of yellow, red and purple across the grid is so eye-fooling that, after a while, analysis stops; instead, one submits to the pressure of light that emanates from the field. Color becomes an absolute phenomenon; it needs to depict nothing to reveal its action. It may be that no American painter since Rothko has contrived to transform pigment into meditation...
...doubt he watches you with a baleful eye...