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...this is the age of junk, and nothing is difficult any more...
Like Hitchcock and Fritz Lang, Antonioni feels that violence is an integral part of contemporary society and cannot be ignored. His photographer, like Hitchcock's, is brought back to reality by means of melodrama: waiting for the owner of a junk shop he wants to buy, the photographer wanders through a nearby park. Ignoring a bizarre fat lady that 99 out of 100 photographers would have snapped without thinking twice, he photographs pigeons instead, then two lovers kissing. The girl sees him and pleads with him to give her the roll of film. Unsuccessful, she follows him to his studio...
...Three cheers for your excellent Essay on art today [Jan. 27]. I recently completed a course in modern art in hopes that I might gain some appreciation for the currently hailed art trends. However, I was completely disillusioned with the hodgepodge of junk that supposedly caters to the American taste. I can find beauty in the colors of Pollock, design in the geometric abstraction of Malevitch, and esthetic reasons for the distortions of Picasso; however, I can find no purpose in pop art or minimal art. Previously, I thought that I just wasn't with it; now I know...
...Ernst married an American girl who had attended the Dayton Art Institute. When she happened on the oils stuffed in a trunk, her husband assured her: "They're nothing-just some junk I got gypped on." Unable to dismiss them from her mind, Mrs. Ernst spent seven years trying to identify them in art books and libraries. Finally, in 1945, she convinced her husband that they should take the paintings to New York. Art dealers there declared the badly cracked canvases to be worthless fakes or copies. But by searching in the New York Public Library, the Ernsts found...
Probably most students, in order to get what they want from the administration, will be willing to junk the demands that have been advanced for giving non-students the same political rights as students. Only a few of the most fervent consider the non-student issue the most important at stake...