Word: originalism
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...often also what is most beautiful. This is not a sociological justification of Lichtenstein; although his blow up paintings of comic-book panels, sandwiches and soda-pop, is as lucid and incisive a reflection of American life as any contemporary art. And portrayal of the culture of its origin remains a justification of art. But Lichtenstein's work stands up on its own in purely sensual terms, and also in formal aesthetic terms...
...authentic aesthetic response is weak and powerless in the face of the pressure of public opinion. To most of us, an authentic aesthetic response is that ineffable "gut feeling," which in this age of narcissistic fiction, is resurrected to onanistic worship. But a gut feeling, exactly because its vague origin, which is so often confused with mystic truthfulness, is associational in its logic. The shudder of revulsion that comes when viewing a Lichtenstein is probably not an artistic response, but an externally motivated one, prompted by the antibourgeois biases of contemporary culture...
...beard looked a little suspicious from the start, and the chest hairs were certainly of dubious origin. No wonder, since the face behind the 5 o'clock shadow belonged to Actress Karen Black, 33, who had dressed up as a male homosexual for a film by Sherwin Tilton, 22, a student at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles. Black, who collects up to $150,000 per picture these days, donated a spare Sunday to Tilton's project after he had asked her to be his leading lady in a $7,000 movie entitled Owen...
...bear the mark of his 19 years there. While in Boston, he eats many of his meals in Chinatown, an opportunity for home-style cooking he doesn't often get in Geneva. And, on a somewhat more profound level, his thought pattern and artistic aims are clearly Eastern in origin...
...London has been carrying on with its "wild Stunt Show" all summer--it's actually a collection of vaudeville-type skits--and this Sunday you can get in free if you go to the box office between 6:45 and 7 p.m. and present something, anything, of British origin. The Company tried this play once before, and it must have been a success since they're repeating it. But if you ask the woman at the box office what sorts of things people showed up with, she will refuse to tell you "because it might give you ideas...