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...Excerpt "Painter Richard Lindner said of himself, 'I am a tourist everywhere, which means an "observer." ' Once the emigre rec onciled himself or herself to this position as observer, life became too interesting to lament that if one was a tourist everywhere, one was at home nowhere. Erich Kahler did not learn English until he was close to 50, yet he wrote many works in that language. In 1954 Kahler received a note from his fellow Princetonian the matchlessly resilient Einstein about the persecution of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Einstein understood the American's predicament...
...their narration, Brownlow and Gill say the footage they recovered and lovingly shaped into a scholarly and joyous television show is akin to finding the sketch books of a great painter. They are right. What is wrong is that no U.S. television distributor has as yet agreed to broadcast the work. But the series will be on view at New York City's Museum of Broadcasting July 12-16. It is worth any amount of trouble to examine the treasures these raiders of the lost film cans have found...
...jargon, like "post-modernism," means nothing definable. It merely points to a mood of eclectic revivalism, the assumption being that since progress in art is a myth, painting must perforce go crabwise, with many nostalgic glances backward. Under such a vague rubric, Chia looks a very apposite painter. Granted, neither he nor his fellow transavanguardisti get anywhere near the best German art of this generation, epitomized by the grim, magnificently redemptive visions of Anselm Kiefer, 38. Yet it is better to lack the tragic sense than to fake it. If an artist like Kiefer can uncover the sublimated debris...
Chia's originality is more notional than real. It depends on the unfamiliarity of the sources he adroitly quotes. How many people in America have heard of, let alone seen, the work of Ottone Rosai (1895-1957), a Florentine painter whose roly-poly figures were part of a conservative reaction against Italian futurism in the 1920s? Chia has, and his rotund bodies-thighs like boiled ham, buttocks like bumps, coal-heaver arms-are straight out of Rosai, though bigger and endowed with a crustier decorative surface...
Miller amused his audience which filled the Dedley House JCR with a stream of bitingly satirical comments. His victions ranged from Harold Painter ("tight-assed writer though he is") to American attempts at serfous television (these ghastly, concerous miniseries") to the Osear ceremonies ("they should be censored, not celebrated...