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Benton became a surrogate big daddy to replace Pollock's own woundingly absent father. Thus the future avant-gardist had for a mentor a man who hated abstract art. But when Pollock came under Benton's tutelage, he wasn't aiming at abstraction. Benton's way of composing, with its heftily twisting figures and buckling, scoop-and-bump space, was based on 16th century Mannerism--Midwestern El Greco and Tintoretto; he even adapted the Mannerist device of reducing the figures to geometrical dolls, sometimes modeling them in clay. This vehemence, locked up as a system, appealed to Pollock...
...artists, clowns, all made of wire and wood and cloth and cork, with himself as their enormous ringmaster manipulating them to music. To judge from the surviving film made of the circus in action, it was quite a show, and it appealed to the latent kid in every avant-gardist. It was le cirque Calder that got the young American full entry to the Parisian art world. This charming piece of performance art was one of the small sights of Paris between 1926 and 1930; it was seen and enjoyed by a whole roster of artists, designers and architects--Joan...
Nobody could call it avant-gardist; but so what? What counts is its integrity and depth of feeling. It is, to use a more-or-less obsolete word, extremely earnest, not least in its relation to tradition. Boyd seems never to have felt the Oedipal hostility to the past that garbled the rhetoric of Modernism. He didn't think of art as a weapon against paternal authority, ^ because he grew up in an extremely nurturing family, a sort of artists' guild presided over by his grandfather, a painter, and his father, the potter Merric Boyd. (The only way to rebel...
...because I couldn't get anybody to play the classical music that I wrote." During a career that spanned three decades, Zappa never pretended or wanted to be anything else. On the first Mothers' album, 1966's Freak Out!, he quoted the maxim of his hero, the '20s avant-gardist Edgard Varese: "The present-day composer refuses to die." They were words he lived...
...Deep Hearts/The Making of Serpent" at 9:30p.m. "Deep Hearts" is an essay in describing anoccasion during the rainy season when twodifferent lineages meet to choose the most perfectBororo male. "The Making of Serpent" isavant-gardist Scott Bartlett's reexamination ofthe ways and means of the production of "Serpent."10 November Tuesday