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...Time-Life Television coproduction. Titled Shock of the New, it will be shown on public television stations next January. "Picasso pervades the entire series," says Hughes. "The history of cubism is largely about Picasso. No discussion of art as political emblem can avoid Guernica, the last major political work of art. Picasso was a dominating influence on surrealism and the chief inspiration of American abstract expressionism. The shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without...
...many works of art for which the word masterpiece?exiled for the crime of elitism over the past decade?must now be reinstated. It is the largest exhibition of one artist's work that MOMA has ever held, or probably ever will. It contains pieces ranging in size from Guernica, Picasso's 26-ft.-wide mural of protest against the fascist bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War, to a cluster of peg dolls he painted for his daughter Paloma. Paintings, drawings, collages, prints of every kind, sculpture in bronze, wood, wire, tin, string, paper and clay...
Luis gets his professional start as a driver for three foreign correspondents during the Spanish Civil War, quickly learning the arts of duplicitous reporting. Then he stumbles onto a small fortune in bank notes that have been salvaged from bombed Guernica. Postponing his career in intelligence, he meanders around Spain for most of a year on a donkey named Fred-after Astaire because of its jug ears-and later holes up in Madrid for two years until the cash runs out. It is then that he goes to work for the Abwehr. The Germans like Luis mainly because he speaks...
Students re-enacted the "Kassinga massacre," an incident in which South African forces attacked guerrillas from the air. As the students performed it, the scene was an African version of Guernica. A tape recorder played a screeching sound track of an air attack and gunshots. Students acted out people being hit from the air and falling dead; others played comrades who picked up the wounded. There was an impassioned song, the gist of its message being, "We will never forget Kassinga." At the end, the students formed massed ranks, shook their fists and chanted, "We shall never give...
...HUMAN form--manipulated, distorted fractured, parodied--recurs throughout the show. In Picasso's "Woman in an Armchair" a schematic body is cut into two-dimensional sections as if from plywood. A later work with the same name shares the hideous distortions of the figures in his "Guernica" mural. Inhuman cones and spirals combine in odd juxtapositions of anatomy...