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...when Greil Marcus in his article on the Beatles eagerly concurs with the judgement that "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the 'Sgt. Pepper' album was released"; or when Robert Christgau compares Chuck Berry's lyrics to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...
...outskirts of Geneva, where for a little while they seem to have found a viable alternative to the bourgeois life they disdain. Each character is as individual as the ideology he or she has adopted, ranging from Max, a former revolutionary whose total cynicism masks his despair, to Marcel, an artist who finds animals more interesting than people and who is preoccupied with the fate of the whale, to Madeleine, an efficient secretary who espouses tantrism and returns constantly to the value of holding back one's semen so the lotus will explode in one's head. But they...
SWISS PAINTING by Florens Deuchler, Marcel Roethlisberger and Hans Lüthy. 198 pages. Skira/Rizzoli. $45. One calumny on Switzerland runs that 500 years of democracy produced the cuckoo clock. Naturally, the three Swiss academicians who produced this book dispute the insult. They also show some indecision about whether there is such a thing as Swiss art, as opposed to art that happened to be created in Switzerland. The country never fostered the influential art centers that flourished in Italy and France. It did give birth to at least two masters-Holbein and Fuseli. This volume includes them but concentrates...
...Merce Cunningham, the dancer-choreographer, were among the innovators living there. If it can be said that advanced art in America through the '50s and early '60s had one single native guru, that man was Cage: at once the most avant-garde and the most transparent of composers, the Marcel Duchamp of music, the man who erected combinations of silence and random sound into an aesthetic strategy in order to give art the inclusive density of life. It was Cage's example that prompted Rauschenberg to formulate his much-quoted remark that "painting relates to both art and life...
Rauschenberg's combines, like the work of his friend and mentor Marcel Duchamp, are seeded with such puns, parallels and quirks of meaning. Like Duchamp, he was given to embedding a kind of ironic lechery in his images?the supreme example being Monogram, 1959. Monogram remains the most notorious of Rauschenberg's combines: a stuffed Angora goat, girdled with a tire. The title is self-fulfilling?it is Rauschenberg's monogram, the sign by which he is best known?but why did it become so famous? Partly because of its unacknowledged life as a powerful sexual fetish. The lust...