Word: lindner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York Times last winter, "are the artists who speak to me: Giotto, Duccio, Van Gogh." Doubtless this list will change if he tries a ceiling, but Schnabel has never learned to draw; in graphic terms, his art has barely got beyond the lumpy pastiches of Max Beckmann and Richard Lindner he did as a student in Houston. The dull, uninflected megalomania of his kitsch- expressionist imagery (Sex, Death, God and Me) is rant, a bogus "appropriation" of profundity...
Special notice must be given to Jonathan Engel's portrait of Karl Lindner, the homes association representative. The first time Lindner visits the Younger home he is timorous, almost deferential, refusing hospitality and asserting that all problems can be solved if people will only sit down and talk about them. He insists on being polite even though he would never speak to Black people if he could help it. The second time he visits, secure in his faith that the Youngers will accept his offer and wisely avoid trouble. Lindner is not arrogant, but brisk. Engel plays the two scenes...
Excerpt "Painter Richard Lindner said of himself, 'I am a tourist everywhere, which means an "observer." ' Once the emigre rec onciled himself or herself to this position as observer, life became too interesting to lament that if one was a tourist everywhere, one was at home nowhere. Erich Kahler did not learn English until he was close to 50, yet he wrote many works in that language. In 1954 Kahler received a note from his fellow Princetonian the matchlessly resilient Einstein about the persecution of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein understood the American's predicament...