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...landmarks in modern literature, Steiner says, are works that have pushed language over the precipice of its past-Joyce's Ulysses, the poetry of Mallarmé and Rilke. Painting, too, is language, but the modern practitioners are in total rebellion against the "verbal" or meaningful in art. Franz Kline's Chief is a tornado of paint, and nothing can be said about it that is "pertinent to the habits of linguistic sense." Contemporary music also flies from exterior meanings. Language today can deal only with the surfaces of experience. "The rest, and it is presumably the much larger...
This constant unfolding, at once captivating and exhausting, sets the Morris Louis paintings apart from other contemporary paintings. The works of Kline, Rothko, and Newman--to mention only a few--impart their dominant mood at first glance and further investigation only elaborates and refines the sensation. "Optical" art, although it also changes continually and has a sustaining visual fascination, fails to elicit the excitement of the Louis paintings because it is devoid of any mood or emotion...
Philadelphia industries responded more than enthusiastically to Sullivan's program, providing both money and machinery for instruction. Sperry Rand contributed a $350,000 Univac computer. Smith Kline & French outfitted a laboratory for the instruction of chemical-lab technicians. The Budd Co., one of the nation's biggest makers of subway cars, gave equipment for training sheet-metal workers, then hired 200 of the graduates...
MAGAZINES The buzz of cocktail chatter and the clink of ice cubes shrink the vast room with its monumental fireplace, paneled walls, beamed 22-ft. ceiling and two suits of medieval armor. Soft, round girls curl up with boy friends on couches beneath immense paintings by Franz Kline and Larry Rivers. The men are relaxed, confident, plainly well off. A scene straight out of Playboy magazine? Precisely. The men are mostly magazine employees, and the girls are some of the 24 bunnies who room upstairs. A couple of centerfold "Playmates," disarmingly pretty and ingenuous-looking in party dresses, sip Pepsi...
...LILLIAN KLINE...