Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RAVINIA FESTIVAL (Highland Park, III.): Henry V, Twelfth Night and Hamlet, put on by a British company under the direction of Peter Dews (who put together TV's "Age of Kings" series...
GREAT LAKES SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL (Lakewood, Ohio): The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado, Henry VI, Richard III and Antony and Cleopatra...
Housed in the Graustarkian palace ruins of the pomp-crazed nobles of Hesse, Dokumenta III features 1,500 intelligently selected paintings, sculptures and drawings from 250 artists who are either the acknowledged masters or the exploratory frontiersmen of modern art. The shaping hand behind it and the earlier Dokumentas belongs to Professor Arnold Bode, 60, an erudite man with Napoleonic looks and energy who rules Kassel with scrupulous esthetic integrity. A jury of 15 members (four non-Germans, including Peter Selz from Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art) aided Bode in choosing the entries, but shunned awarding prizes. Qualitative...
Dokumenta III ranges supranationally from Arp to Wols, from Braque...
...counterinfluences in contemporary art, from the School of Paris to the New York School, from abstract expressionism to symbolic African primitivism, from the revival of art nouveau to the revival of Dadaism, all seem to call for a Rosetta stone, a hieroglyphic key to release meaning from mystery. Dokumenta III comes close to being that Rosetta stone...