Word: marination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Homer to Hopper, at the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, looks at the golden age of American watercolor (1870-1930). Included are the works of Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, John Marin, Charle Demuth and some lesser-known painters. (Tuesday-Friday...
Relay Station. The same Romantic awe at the rolling ocean that fills Al bert Pinkham Ryder's Toilers of the Sea, 1880, runs through the work of John Marin right up to his death in 1953. It also provides an essential clue to early Pollock. The immense, horizontal still ness of 19th century plains landscape floods the work of Georgia O'Keeffe...
...difficulty in diagnosing pathological narcissism is that the whole culture has turned in a narcissistic direction. Social Critic Tom Wolfe calls the '70s the "Me decade." Author Peter Marin describes the swing away from social concerns toward development of the self as "the new narcissism." Marin cites therapists as part of the problem: "The trend in therapy is toward the deification of the isolated self...
...Marin, writing in Harper's, blames the so-called humanistic psychologies and disciplines, including gestalt, est, Arica and the "self-realization" theories of Abraham Maslow. Marin got some support last week at the American Psychological Association's annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Charles Hampden-Turner, president-elect of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, agreed that the humanistic movement "is top-heavy on the side of self-concern. I think that is self-defeating. [You seek] to become one with the universe, but instead, you isolate yourself." Transactional Analyst Barton Knapp of Philadelphia's Laurel Institute added that...
...reporter in 1968. Last week this prediction was coming true-more or less-as Christo's latest project, Running Fence, moved toward completion on the coast of northern California. A shimmering construction of nylon slung between steel posts, Running Fence issues from the sea at Bodega Bay in Marin County, wending 24½ miles up hill and down dale, over ten public roads (including Highway 101) and through dozens of farms, to finish inland near Petaluma, Calif. For an artwork, it has consumed staggering amounts of time, manpower and materials: 300 students, 2,050 posts...