Word: ops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Altering the Course. At Enugu, op position to Rodger came from the Rus sian Orthodox representatives, who appreciate Visser 't Hooft's great interest in keeping open the lines of communication between churches on both sides of the Iron Curtain. African and Asian leaders were also disturbed about en trusting the secretaryship to an inexperienced ecumenist. "It is not enough to keep the council on course," explained one "new church" spokesman...
Slavery to Freedom. Two years ago, after failing to persuade his wife to leave, Colopy wrote the Bishop of Worcester for advice. When the bish op's reply was discovered by one of the Slaves, Colopy was condemned before the community, stripped of the black-cassock worn by male Slaves, and locked in one of the farmhouse's rooms...
...painting, cows jump over moons, lovers float like lost balloons, roosters and angels hover like Technicolor constellations on the dome of a painterly planetarium. This kind of levitation has been stunning in dozens of paintings and murals but never more suitable than in his new ceiling for the Paris Opéra (see opposite page...
...fell in the same year that London's Tate Gallery put on its bold survey of a decade of invention. That exhibition introduced a host of young Londoners. Venice's 32nd brassy Biennale gave official acclaim to U.S. pop. Germany's didactic Dokumenta III then launched op. The 43rd Pittsburgh International, better known as the Carnegie, fails to find any new avantgarde, but makes up for this lack with a rich platter of hearty helpings: 401 paintings and sculptures...
...Much op art is removed from the artist's subjective discovery. It is the result of a mechanical muse, and the artist becomes a computer programmer churning out visual experiences. Some, like moiré patterns, suddenly reveal new sensations that man never knew were within his visible province. But is it therefore science...