Word: graphical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, in a glass-covered court and adjoining gallery of the Bavarian State Graphic Collection, originally designed by Adolf Hitler himself as an annex to the Nazi Brown House, one of the most com prehensive lithograph exhibitions ever assembled opened in Munich. There were Munchs and Noldes. Daumiers and Lautrecs, Chagalls and Picassos. But the real star of the show was one of Munich's own sons. His works are a bit clumsy, and he was not really much of an artist. Johann Nepomuk Franz Aloys Senefelder, born in 1771, was lithography's inventor...
...there is such a thing as a printmaking capital of the U.S., it could well be the Department of Graphic Arts at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City. It is, perhaps, this glowing success that makes Mauricio Lasansky, the department's head and the nation's most influential printmaker. seem personally to be the happiest of men. Yet the world he portrays in his prints is one convulsed with agony. Last week the Brooklyn Museum put on display a Lasansky retrospective that was almost Goyaesque in its sense of nightmare...
Lasansky took over the anemic Department of Graphic Arts, became an associate professor at the end of two years, a full professor in 1948. He has made Iowa a germinal school; students have gone forth to run graphic arts departments everywhere from U.C.L.A. to the universities of Texas, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois, as well as Tulane, Michigan State and the Cleveland Institute...
...were allowed to quote from the book's "obscene" passages, one could easily prove that such mechanical, brutally graphic scenes could never arouse anything except disgust in the average reader. That, most often, is the effect that Miller intends--disgust and hatred of the whole apparatus of modern civilization. This may make him silly--in the sense that Rousseau was silly--but not obscene...
...Cruzeiro's account of slum life "in the shadow of the Chase Manhattan and First National City Bank'' was every bit as graphic as the LIFE study of Rio. Ballot's picture of eight Gonzaleses crowded into a single slum-house bedroom had much the same impact as Parks's shot of the Rio favelados crowded into theirs. Fact was that Ballot's most moving picture-Gonzales' frail nine-year-old son Ely-Samuel asleep on a dirty mattress and apparently crawling with cockroaches-was posed. The photographer caught and distributed the roaches...