Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newest discovery is "Brutalist" Norbert Tadeusz, son of a Polish-descended Dortmund coal miner; only one year out of the Düsseldorfs liberal Academy of Fine Arts, he has already been represented in nine shows, become a collector's favorite. Tadeusz' teacher, Joseph Beuys, is also out of the ordinary. A onetime Hitler Youth and World War II Stuka pilot, Beuys has undergone a characteristic postwar metamorphosis to become Düsseldorfs reigning neo-Dada hero. He is celebrated for his Chaplinesque smile, battered Homburg, octopuslike drawings, sculptures made of chocolate and lard, for the splendiferous happenings...
...city's very impersonality acts as a magnet for today's less flamboyant, more businesslike variety of artist. Gerhard Richter observes that "in Munich, the artist is too easily corrupted by the pleasant life. In Düsseldorf, the intellectual air is clean." For artists like Joseph Beuys, this is just the atmosphere for fresh beginnings. "What all of us have been doing," he says, "is trying to return to the zero points, to seek new essentials, to engage in meditations to lead us to the rediscovery of what lies behind our thwarted existence...
...them; U.S. citizens and those of Greece, with whom Albania is technically still at war, are automatically barred from entry. They would probably feel uncomfortable anyway. In every town and village stand the real symbols of Albania's hard-lining Communism: numerous statues and busts of the canonized Joseph Stalin...
...Made His Pile." The practice was halted only after Congress passed the 1934 Securities Exchange Act and F.D.R. named Joseph P. Kennedy to head the new Securities and Exchange Commission. Ironically, Kennedy the year before had made $60,800 on Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., one of the last pools. "The President has great confidence in him," noted Harold Ickes' diary. "He has made his pile and knows all the tricks of the trade...
...this adaptation by Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz, Volpone becomes (in literal translation) Mr. Fox, a world-weary voluptuary (Rex Harrison) who lives a vita that is incredibly dolce in contemporary Venice. "My wealth," he announces, "is no more a pleasurable object of contemplation than my navel." To enliven his ennui, he decides to bring Volpone to life, casting himself in the title role. For his unfaithful servant, he hires an unemployed actor (Cliff Robertson) who has always wanted to play the palazzo...