Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LACKING critical theorists, playwrights, or critics of the arts, the cohort dominated by public policy economists has found a comfortable but confining role within the broader conservative movement. The conservatives have not fulfilled Harold Cruse's requirement of two decades ago, that Blacks develop their own, complete, "cultural nationalism...
Harvard's Government Professor Martin Kilson, a leading interpreter of Black intellectual life, speaks of the movement Sowell founded as an "important cross-roads in the life cycle" of Black intellectuals that has broadened the debate permissible within their ranks...
...three-way race that split the Democratic vote. Former Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, who campaigned for Mecham, has called for his resignation. Congressman Morris Udall and former Governor Bruce Babbitt have signed the recall petition. Says Ed Buck, a gay Phoenix businessman and conservative Republican who launched the recall movement last July: "Perhaps their support finally drove the point home to Evan Mecham that this is not a band of homosexuals and dissident Republicans...
...subjects of this show are mostly dancers and jugglers, manipulators of the fleeting instant in whose work Rothenberg detects a familiar cultural pathos, distantly related to Picasso's circus folks but less sentimental. Most of them are in rapid movement, spinning, doing plies and tossing eggs, and this contrasts oddly with the way they are painted. True, Rothenberg always liked to play on contradictions between the quick, snapshot nature of her chosen image (a galloping horse, a teetering bicyclist, Mondrian solemnly turning like a mantis on the dance floor) and the nuanced and obviously slow way it was presented...
...lines, so that the never-quite-final shape becomes a palimpsest of recorded attempts to fix it, echoes Giacometti's own anxiety before his subjects. How can the artist be sure, and make you sure, what is there? For Rothenberg the problem becomes worse, because she chooses subjects in movement, the opposite of Giacometti's hieratic stillness. It does not always come off, but when it does you are made sharply aware of the breadth of Rothenberg's pictorial ambitions...