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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prizes his little songs and feels lonely when they are absent. But absent they were last week: 130 of his recent works, 88 of them straight from his tidy chest of portfolios, went on show in the new quarters of Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art (see opposite page). Two years ago, few people outside his native Germany had ever heard of Bissier; it took a major prize at the São Paulo Bienal in 1961 to establish him abroad as the leading abstractionist of small harmonies...
...Your only job is to keep me awake," wrote Littlejohn. "How? By FACTS. Any kind, but do get them in. They are what we look for, as we skim our lynx eyes over every other page-a name, a place, an allusion, an object, a brand of deodorant, the titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just 'medieval cathedrals'-name nine. Think of a few specific examples of 'contemporary decadence,' like Natalie Wood...
...colored portraits of his predecessor in agony, Vincent Van Gogh, after reproductions of the Dutch artist's long-lost The Artist on the Road to Tarascon. Most famous of his serial portraits are those of screaming pontiffs modeled after a papal commission by Velásquez (see opposite page). Though he has been through Rome, where Pope Innocent X's portrait hangs in the Palazzo Doria-Pamphili, Bacon has never gone to see it. The gum-baring shriek that gapes out of so many of his portraits is copied from a still from Sergei Eisenstein's film...
...negotiate a cease-fire between Germany and the Western Allies. Hochhuth believes that the Pope, as the Supreme Pontiff of the world's most powerful Christian church, was the only man whose formal protest might have deterred Hitler. But the Pope was silent, and in a 45-page historical appendix to the text of his play, Hochhuth charges: "Never perhaps in the whole of history have so many paid with their lives for the passive attitude of one politician...
...merciful brevity of every page...