Word: handmaiden
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...choreography any longer an artistic handmaiden, subservient to the greater demands of score. In a reversal of precedence, music is now only one of many elements that contribute to the impact of dance, which is a matter of sight and sound as well as movement. In effect, the choreographer has become the Jack-of-all-arts-the direc tor of a new theatrical form that has a total design for total involvement...
Brooklyn-born David Weinrib, 43, is another artist who feels that technology is, at best, only the handmaiden to inspiration. "The ideas you have," he explains, "force you to try new materials, not the other way around." His Manhattan studio has been redone five times in ten years as he shifted from bronze to steel and plastic constructions and finally to polyester resin. One of his recent plastic pieces is Five Inverted Pyramids, a work that gleams with static tension; it confines the eye with its precise geometry, while at the same time allowing it to penetrate luxuriously into...
...militarized, economic bureaucracy that defines established power in this country has no need for cultures, if neutral technology is what it wants, the handmaiden of power but compliant to its ends, what shall we expect the "service-station" university to become but the internalized, refined, and rationalized conception of this barbarism...
...Distaste for the "establishment." There is almost total rejection of the organizations that administer the status quo. The status quo is viewed as dominated by the "military-industrial complex." The university is seen as a handmaiden to this complex, doing research for it and training its servants. Much of the intellectual establishment is viewed as bought and paid...
...sovereign succeeded sovereign, Gobelins faithfully followed painting as a kind of painstaking handmaiden. Not until 1937, when French Painter Jean Lurcat introduced abstractions, were the weavers released from traditional subject matter. The revitalized Gobelins factory also attracted the designs of the 20th century's most prominent artists, including Marc Chagall, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely and Miro. Inspired by the fresh results, contemporary architects awoke to the fact that tapestries provide a highly effective counterpoint for vast spaces and cold materials. Says Miro, enthusiastically planning to collaborate with architects on new tapestries: "As modern man becomes increasingly restless, moving from...