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Both children's art and the work of primitive peoples have long since won their artistic due. Now, says Art Historian Clay Lancaster, writing in the current issue of the College Art Journal, an even more primitive art may be headed for popularity: that of the birds and the...
Animals have been artists for millions of years, says Lancaster, although "their theories remain sealed in [their] little minds." The spider, for example, "is a marvelous craftsman . . . The common orb web is a triumph of symmetry and artistry." Then there is the ant, a master organizer, engineer and architect, and...
Lancaster predicts that animal art may some day be admitted, alongside that of children and primitives, to "the sanctified galleries of art museums." Says he: "When we consider that animal art has remained constant for so many, many centuries, perhaps we should give the animals their full due and recognize...
ANTHONY A. GUARNA Lancaster, Pa.
His Majesty O'Keefe (Warner) may have a certain novelty for moviegoers who have not yet heard about how the natives were happy until the white man came. Money, says this script, grows on the coconut trees on the western Pacific island of Yap, but nobody bothers to pick...