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...remote Iceland's poet-painter Diter Rot. Last summer the pavilions at the Venice Biennale and the attics of Germany's Dokumenta III dickered and chattered with electrically driven, and even electronically musical, kinetic op. At the square root of op art are the essentially static visual phenomena that enslave and enthrall the eye. The op artist's job is to turn those illusions into sleights of art. Some examine the way a single color looks darker than it is against a lighter background. Some, like Steele, place contrasting shapes together, which cause the eye to perceive...
...group called Zero, begun in 1959 by three artists who hold Ph.D. degrees; they call for "new idealism" as opposed to the "new realism" of pop. The Italians have two op groups, the Gruppo N in Padua and the Gruppo T in Milan, which hopes to "codify visual phenomena, just as music was codified into notes...
Introductory remarks by an American, Dorothy Joseph, defining such phenomena as the "blind date," the "coffee date," the "steady date" and the "study date," were greeted with mild amusement by the group...
Simultaneously the Civilization of India materializes in the guise of Soc Sci 116, students of Aristophanes savor Greek 105a, and dilettantes carefully avoid the intricacies of wave phenomena unwound in Physics 112a. Juan Marichal caps this tour de force of the liberal arts with History 175b, the intellectual history of Latin America, while Professor Gleason shows "how the foundations of real variable theory can be based on naive set theory in Math...
...first place, the critics do not distinguish between the attractiveness of academic careers, and the increasing professionalism of all careers. These are two different phenomena. The first is measured by the number who become academicians. Shinagel calculates this is about a fifth of the last few graduating classes. The figure is lower than the number of men who do graduate work in the arts and sciences, for about half the scientists (who comprise about two-fifths of this group) take jobs in industry...