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DURING ITS PREVIOUS stops at the University Museum at Berkeley and the Guggenheim in New York, the exhibition of works by Ferdinand Hodler now at the Busch-Reisinger has attracted as much critical attention as any show of the past year. Much of the publicity seems to have been the product of surprise: few in this country had ever heard of Hodler, much less assigned him the same prominence in which he is held by European critics, who see him at the forefront of early modernism...
...Dubuffet, 71, the ex-wine merchant from Le Havre, described the paintings that have earned him a reputation as France's most eminent living artist as well as its official culture scourge. The three decades of his output now displayed in an enormous retrospective at Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum resemble a strip-mining operation. With indefatigable and clamorous gusto, Dubuffet has chewed up whole tracts of land once thought to be outside culture...
Despite the ritual assurances in the Guggenheim catalogue that Dubuffet is still a subversive force, the flurry and scandals that once attended his shows have died. Whatever else he may be doing, he is not-as a New York critic claimed in 1948-"debasing and perverting the very nature of art." His crude little turnip-men and personages compounded, apparently, of excrement and butterfly wings, his animals and objects in all their quirkish black humor with (lately) their deadpan repetition of red and blue stripes within the wiggling contours, are only pictures after all. They have altogether lost their shock...
Eight Harvard professors have won Guggenheim Fellowships for 1973, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced last Friday...
...fellowships are awarded on the basis of "demonstrated accomplishment in the past and strong promise for the future," according to the Guggenheim Foundation. The awards allow each recipient to devote an entire, continuous year to a project in his particular field, away from any distractions which might otherwise impair his study...