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Perkins was a rather conservative fellow of solid Yankee stock, and Berg wisely uses accounts of Max's relations with his writers to tell the story. Berg gives the basics of Max's upbringing and personal life but perceives that these can go only so far toward answering just why he demonstrated such an uncanny ability for spotting and remaining faithful to the young men and women who went on to become some of America's finest writers...
...hindsight, one can easily see where they got their language: how Gorky's spidery, fluent line emerged from Miro, how the bulging shapes of early de Kooning derive from '30s Picasso, what Rothko got from Max Ernst and Pollock from Kandinsky, and how deeply Adolph Gottlieb's pictographs were influenced by Victor Brauner. But that is perhaps of secondary importance. What counts most in this show is the spectacle of those obscure but desperately committed artists painting as though art had the power to change life, as though culture itself depended on their efforts: which...
Back at Harvard, the Thursday Noon Recital Series at the Busch-Reisinger Museum continues this afternoon. This is an excellent and accessible series of weekly concerts, usually for organ, in a very congenial atmosphere. Max Muller plays works for organ today at 12:15; information is at 495-2317. And on Sunday, Lowell House Music Society presents pianist John Nichols and flautist Cathy Hodgeman in works of Bach and Handel. That's at Lowell House...
...Max Miller plays organ works in the Thursday Noon Recital Series at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Call 495-2317 for info. free...
...horrified," says California Attorney Max Goodman. "It just sounds cheap," huffs another prominent member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. Still another calls it a "crime...