Word: objective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...object to the characterization of these organizations as Communist projects. They are projects of the left--I am definitely on the left--and I am willing to discuss them with you in exhaustive detail. The American Forum wanted to find out whether by discussion we could find a new way for America. I do not happen to be satisfied with this Government, which permits the brutalization of those Negroes in Birmingham...
Brucker conceded that "no one wants to risk hurting the common cause by prying too much or spilling secrets," but he did object to the fact that the Administration seems to regard any attempt to get information about its actions as "an irresponsible act that risks spilling the military beans, an all but traitorous tipping-off of the enemy to our defense secrets." Said Brucker: "That is managed news with a vengeance. It is more in the tradition of Dr. Goebbels than our own." In fact, it reminded him of a World War II parody of Kipling...
...Henri Matisse. But only a pop artist would insert her between a panorama photograph of a city and a bed of red and white stripes straight from Old Glory. Wesselmann, 32, talks a good deal about the "esthetic relationship" between what is painted in a collage and the object that is stuck onto it, but his esthetics often turn out to be a bag of raucous gimmicks that merely assault the nerves. He pictures one of his nudes with a real TV set, and he once put a telephone into a collage in order to "make it come alive when...
...work of Claes Oldenburg, 34, the son of a former Swedish consul general, it is in his extraordinary explanations for doing what he does. He calls his giant Floorburger a "metaphor of the human body" because its skin feels a bit like flesh and it is an object that only a human being would create. "I create forms from a living situation: a hamburger is something a living form would create...
Which Is the Flag? Jasper Johns, 32, is, along with Rauschenberg, a dean of the movement. His paintings have a beauty that is rare in pop art. In his early flag paintings, he was concerned with the elusive borderline between reality and art, that moment of ambiguity when an object could be either or both. The flag posed a problem: "You don't see it because you are busy knowing it is a flag." The problem was to turn it into "a visual situation only. How could it be altered so that it could become a painting?" Sometimes, Johns...