Word: manifestoes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...infinitely less receptive to the seriousness of women artists. One way to resist such pressures was to emphasize the formal and botanical over the symbolic and sexual. "I am not a woman painter," she once declared in a famous statement; her life's work was a sustained manifesto against second- class aesthetic citizenship...
Crisp seems to espound sincerely his philosophy of self-absorption, but with a sardonic humor that would make both Ayn Rand and W.C. Fields proud. It's simultaneously a deadly serious manifesto for happiness whose key points are hilariously funny. It's no wonder that Crisp has developed such a following. He does tell egos what they want to hear...
...apparent, The Price Of The Ticket is more biography than political manifesto. Indeed, the collection of early Baldwin articles is a fantastic addition to the study of how his present philosophy has emerged. The latter half of his career, especially the longer essays which are available in other forms, could have been edited. One wonders how many of Baldwin's former neighbors in Harlem can afford the book's thirty-dollar pricetag. But the biographical importance of this collection outweighs any criticisms about its format. It is rare thing when a human being progresses as far as Baldwin--from clumsy...
...Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...woman to speculate on Millet's promiscuous habits during youth, and Millet in turn to counter with the charge that her accuser probably beats her own kids--over the issue of child abuse. Friday night's free-for-all with "bawdy Kate", the author of the ground-breaking 1968 manifesto Sexual Politics and a leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan Suleiman's attempt to restore order during the question and answer period was overridden by a Cantabrigian majority intent on using the session as a forum for debating next month's referendum...