Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goes deeper than the surface problems of sexuality and birth control. He bespeaks man as a spiritual as well as a material being. He upholds continence as a possible virtue whereas his every critic (including, sadly, many Catholic priests) at least implicitly regards continence as an impossible virtue to modern man. To deny the possibility of continence (in any human field) is to profess the democratically fatal doctrine that man is a determined being, not a free one-a doctrine at the base of too many political, social and economic practices already eating away at the foundations of human liberty...
What, in art, is real? The question is as old as Plato and as new as the Museum of Modern Art's summer spectacular, called "The Art of the Real." The museum's show consists of 33 to total abstractions, on the argument that only objects professing to be nothing but themselves are truly "real." The older, more obvious and far more common interpretation, of course, is that reality in art is achieved by copying "real life." Stirred by Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, a mini-renaissance of this older school is taking place...
...most successful modern users of the camera as an aid to painting are the U.S.'s Howard Kanovitz and Britain's Malcolm Morley, both of whom use photography as a way to probe that old Platonic question. Says Kanovitz: "Certainly the film Rashomon and, more recently, the Warren Commission report illustrate how impossible it is to 'tell it the way it really is.' " Adds Morley: "Realism hasn't even been dealt with in the 20th century. The Ashcan School were all preachers, and pop artists are busy trying to make their painting abstract...
...background) got in because "his head reminded me of my father." So did Fannie Hurst (right background), because "she looked like my Aunt Mamie." Kanovitz himself plays the role of "proud papa," shown dancing with his wife. If factual fiction, the picture is visually true, a frozen tableau of modern life...
...Chicago's Artistic Heritage Ensemble, a troupe of 25 Negro performers, works from a wheel-mounted band shell, mixes gospel, modern dancing and rhythm-and-blues to illustrate African and U.S. Negro contributions to music. Its costs are paid by federal and state funds...