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LEONARD G. KASSEL...
...headmaster at Kassel's esteemed art academy took one look at the messy paintbox presented by the tousle-haired young applicant. "Nein," said he. After all, would a violinist treat his instrument that way? It was a bad moment for the awkward Hessian farmer's son until he remembered a good school in Karlsruhe on the Rhine. There the examiner, with more tact, looked over the madcap paintings on cardboard, asked, "Do you really think we ought to take you?" "With my talent," the youth burst...
Died. Art Kassel, 67, Chicago bandleader whose wailing saxophone and syrupy voice put such songs as Love Letters in the Sand on the hit parade and kept his Castles in the Air radio program a national favorite throughout the 1930s; of kidney failure; in Van Nuys, Calif...
...Pierre Bonnard's cloudless skies and serene interiors (through Nov. 29), but also on tap are sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 mesh, spring and wire works by German Sculptor Günter Haese, who first caught U.S. curators' eyes at Kassel's 1964 Documenta (through...
What begins as a subliminal feeling at Kassel gradually forces its way to consciousness: the sense of a unifying modern vision and temper that link seemingly disparate and dissonant works of art. The bewildering array of influences and 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...