Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...create the modern investment fetishism, likes to point out that the prices paid in their day for the works of Victorian painters like Alma-Tadema (when multiplied by 30 to bring them into line with the devalued dollar of the '70s) would make the cost of a Pollock or a Jasper Johns today seem almost reasonable. It is said that the Marquess of Westminster, when asked to send a painting from his collection to the 1857 loan exhibition in Manchester, gruffly sent a framed ?100,000 bank note instead...
Western criticism has borrowed some of its words from Chinese art, but paintings like these make one realize how the terms have suffered in transit. To speak, for instance, of the "calligraphy" of a Western artist-Pollock's dripped skeins of paint, or the brisk rhythmic jotting of a Rembrandt sketch -is to use a metaphor. In classical Chinese painting, it is not. The wen-jen used the same brush for painting and writing, the same ink, the same habits of mind. The distinction between word and image, which is one of the sharpest divisions in our culture, barely...
...hand, and the audience on the other," notes Critic Brian O'Doherty, "there are large areas for misunderstanding." O'Doherty, who paints (under the name Patrick Ireland) and also teaches (at Barnard), attempts to correct any such misunderstandings about eight American artists: Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Andrew Wyeth and Joseph Cornell. Despite the use of a good deal of jargon, O'Doherty is remarkably successful. His interviews and commentary, for example, throw a welcome personal light on Hopper's laconic pessimism and Davis' exuberant jazz...
...play-off potential in the Western Division of the N.H.L. The Buffalo Sabres and Philadelphia Flyers, also expansion teams, are doing well. Ironically, the team that has benefited most from expansion is the one that needed help the least-the Montreal Canadiens. Under the direction of General Manager Sam Pollock, the Canadiens have exploited expansion to replenish their bench and keep their dynasty in power. Unlike Washington Redskins Coach George Allen, who trades football draft choices for veterans, Pollock trades veterans for future draft selections...
...years ago, for instance, he engineered a dazzling deal that brought Guy LaFleur, a top minor-league prospect, to Montreal. Having already procured the California Seals' first-round draft pick in an earlier trade, Pollock helped ensure that the Seals would finish last and therefore have the first choice of rookies. He accomplished this by selling a reliable veteran center, Ralph Backstrom, to the Los Angeles Kings, who were struggling with the Seals to stay out of last place. Backstrom's arrival kept the Kings out of the cellar. Pollock is such a shrewd trader that the Canadiens...