Word: pollocks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before Stieglitz died in 1946, his wife had quit New York to spend the summer months in seclusion in the Southwest. Since then, she has been known as America's "leading woman artist"-a boldly condescending phrase-and largely dismissed as irrelevant by generations weaned on Pollock and Kline. To younger painters, her articulate images of mountain, bone and desert looked merely provincial. The milk train of history, having stopped at Tenth Street to pick up the Abstract Expressionists, could not be expected to halt at so remote a siding as Abiquiu, N. Mex. But if it could...
...unblinking self-scrutiny, carried to the point where the self becomes as transparent as water, is demanding and hard to take. But it gives her as much claim as Jackson Pollock had to be numbered among the exemplary figures of modern American culture. O'Keeffe appropriated the 19th century image of the Pioneer Woman (as Pollock took that of the Roaring Boy) and, against all odds, made it work. Wrinkled and spry, fiercely committed to work and solitude, she lives isolated on her New Mexico ranch with two servants and a pair of eleven-year-old chow dogs...
...well housed as Salz. Newcomer Ben Heller, 44, a textile tycoon and a well-known collector in his own right, makes do with a nine-room co-op apartment on Manhattan's Central Park West. Heller is also a friend of artists. He was an early patron of Pollock, Newman, and Kline, has sold many of the paintings thus acquired to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art-keeping a few favorites for himself. Today he buys mostly primitive, classical and Oriental objects. "I buy as a collector, basically because it is beautiful, and I hope that someone else...
...Brown of the U.S. Center for Disease Control declared that an estimated 650,000 Americans under 20 were annually contracting either syphilis or gonorrhea. Reported cases of syphilis in the past year have risen by 55% in New Jersey, 30% in New York City. Last week Dr. James McKenzie-Pollock of the American Social Health Association reported that there has been a "spectacular rise" in syphilis in the past five months and called for national emergency action to meet the problem...
...down the organic structure of the objects themselves, and of the frames that contain them. The house, shown in increasingly close angle, erupts furiously. Then, in a coda, rooms and objects within the house are destroyed in slow motion-refrigerators, bookshelves, clothesracks. The abstraction becomes Expressionistic, simplemindedly recalling Jackson Pollock. Zabriskie Point offers a final reduction in images revealing the vulnerability of props and symbols that obscure humanity and emotion. The vision is conservative: he idealizes love-making in its simplest natural element, then projects World Revolution in the constructive annihilation of material objects representing social corruption. The explosion montage...