Word: popping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show fellows recent American work beginning with the Abstract Expressionists, and progressing through various experiments by color abstractionists up to Minimal Artists, Pop with its familiar fandango of images, and a few other works that stand outside the mainstream of the New York School are also there. The museum gives each artist a lot of space, usually at least half a room, so the viewer can see some progression of the individual's style...
...TIME the viewer wends his way through rooms of colorists, the confrontation with Pop Art jolts his senses. Though from the same environment as the abstract artists, pop artists attack different questions concerning the nature of art. Like masters of still life, they select subjects from the material world around them. By boldly painting things from Commercial America, they attempt to smash the aesthetic values of European traditional art. In spite of flashes of popular success, the movement has failed to undermine standards, and to move beyond its initial inventions...
...WHEN they break into "Carol," an old Chuck Berry number, Jagger has to work out harder than he ever had to before. He has an accomplished body, schooled in mime, and on stage he's all flash and sex, pure wildness, the natural pop idol, Neither his body not his face betray any clear sexual commitment, it's all energy, sick and mannered, a come-on for male and female alike, a ferocious invitation to a cosmic gang bang where penises and breasts, vaginas and asses will intermingle without valence. His hands are wonderfully expressive, what Attend may have...
Reed has been playing it tough since his earliest days in Bernice, La., a tiny (pop. 1,641) farm community 250 miles north of New Orleans. As he recalls, "I hauled wheat, picked cotton, carried watermelons, anything to make a buck." He was named to all-state teams in both football and basketball, and set a school record in the shot put. At Grambling College he made the Small College All-America basketball team twice, and figured to be Detroit's first-round draft choice. But the Pistons unexpectedly bypassed him, and a New York scout named Red Holzman...
Beyer's pop psych is apparently remarkably effective. Pennsylvania Life Insurance has been spectacularly successful. Since 1960, it has increased its assets by 800%, to $48 million in 1968, and its life insurance in force by 11,600%. In 1968, its "gains from operations," the insurance industry's rough equivalent of profits, were $4,000,000. An investment of $13.50 in the company's stock five years ago is worth $242 today...