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...still reacts, both to Duchamp's career and to his immeasurable influence. His works now appear to be essences, concentrations of theory and expression that have nourished the creative spirit for six decades. His juggled compositions antedate John Cage by a generation. His readymades anticipate the objects of Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. Rauschenberg has dedicated works to Duchamp; such disparate artists as Georgia O'Keeffe, Alexander Calder and Yoko Ono have paid him tribute. Abstract Expressionism, Op art, even structures that destroy themselves have their roots in Duchamp's work and spirit...
...prominence in the middle sixties as a radical critic of culture, spokesperson for the New Sensibility. The New Sensibility praised form and damned content. It was against interpretation and for an anesthetic revolution founded on the non-literary arts of music, painting, film and architecture. In its pantheon were Jasper Johns and John Cage, Roland Barthes and Jean-Luc Godard, Buckminister Fuller and Alain Robbe-Grillet...
...sidekicks Mrs. Dainty Fidget and Mrs. Squeamish, Grayce Grant and Joan Pape provide their quota of amusement. Curt Dawson and Ronald Frazier (who likes to smoke a long clay pipe) are a trifle bland as Harcourt and Dorilant, two gallants who envy Horner's success. Rex Everhart, as Sir Jasper, is foolish enough but lacks class, and should be told that the game is blindman's-buff, not blindman's-bluff. David Rounds, with beauty spots on his right chin and left cheek, has great fun with the role of Sparkish, a fop (who has a counterpart in most Restoration...
...Curators Jane Livingstone and Marcia Tucker, written, alas, in the impacted duckspeak of art magazines (sample: "There is a singular combining of the purely somatic and the archly conceptualized and verbal in his aesthetic cognitions"). Nauman's intellect and methods are favorably compared with those of Vladimir Nabokov, Jasper Johns and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Even Leonardo da Vinci is hauled in to serve as an artistic ancestor. The aim of this coercive litany is to persuade doubters that Nauman is a home-grown successor to Marcel Duchamp, whose every pun and jeu d'esprit, no matter how limp, must...
...accident that two painters known for maintaining a critical dialogue with abstract expressionism come off very well in the film. The art of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns is of a type that admits more easily than that of the formalists to personal justification. Thus we have Rauschenberg sitting atop a ladder in his studio and explaining how his search was always for what could be different about his work from other artists and not necessarily what was better. And Johns speaks of trying to find the "things which can't be located" in the materials with which he works...