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This is neither a young man's manifesto nor an old man's apologia pro vita sua, but an interim report on himself by a clever, likable man of 35. British Novelist-Critic John Wain was 20 when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there...
...necessity." As a result, they became associated with all the master rebels of their day-men who were churning up the rules of perspective, blasting out the innards of form, melting down the image to unrecognizable shapes. Manhattan's Leonard Hutton Galleries has restaged those days when the manifesto in capital letters was a standard prop of the art world...
Nine miles west of the Iron Curtain, and soberly aware of it. Göttingen is more a graduate school than a college; its 9,000 coed students study under seven faculties, from law to medicine to theology. Typical of its traditions was the 1957 "Göttingen Manifesto"-a high-level protest by 18 nuclear scientists against arming West German forces with atomic weapons. To this spirit of dissent, Göttingen adds West Germany's best mathematics institute, its biggest university library and largest agricultural faculty. So many Afro-Asian students now go there that the town...
Today the manifesto is no longer regarded as bombast: it cemented together a powerful group of young painters who are attracting an increasing amount of attention, not only at home but also abroad.* Though they were separately painting their agonized pictures before 1961, it was not until U.S. Art Critic Selden Rodman published his acerbic little book called The Insiders that they realized they had a philosophy in common. As a diatribe against abstraction. Rodman's book got a trouncing from many U.S. critics; as a summons to a "new humanism," it found an enthusiastic response in Mexico...
...refuses to associate himself with any group, even the interioristas. But his mark and leadership are there nonetheless. "Mexican art was at a dead end. Now we are free," he said, and the other interioristas enthusiastically agree. Canadian-born Arnold Belkin. 32, one of the co-authors of the manifesto, says that Rivera, chiefly significant as a social-protest painter, had the byproduct effect of leading Mexican art "up a blind alley -two generations of picturesque Indians making tortillas or setting out candles for the Night of the Dead." When abstraction invaded the country, it turned out to be another...