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...from ravens to ostriches, not excluding live dogs and sheep. In the cave the animals, cozy and docile, rest as if inhaling and exhaling the paradisiacal peace of Creation. Through the mouth of the cave, in bold, dazzling sunlight, we see girls bare to the waist, nymphs cavorting in primal innocence. Slowly, and with chilling ominousness, one wooden bar after another slams into place across the face of the cave, as if civilization were sundering these two worlds for all time to come. It is an expulsion from Eden...
...SUNDAY: Primal Man. First of a four part series on primitive homo sapiens sounds like Konrad Lorenz in Ape-face. What were the roots of violence and aggression in man, is the question. Filmed in the Mohave Desert. CH.5. 7:30 p.m. Color...
...well in Las Vegas as in Hollywood. To tune up for her nightclub debut, she has been working out at home in Malibu Beach on bongo drums, conga drums, a guitar and a piano. Dyan was also belting out a few screams as part of her program of primal therapy. "I've spent the last three or four years worried more about what I feel than my career," she said. The screams also loosen her up for her own rhythm and blues songs, which she is recording on an album to be called Come Sip My Wine...
However, the comparison of encounter groups with Arthur Janov's primal therapy is completely out of order: The primal patient is directed to specific feelings and is aided by the therapist to integrate the experience, so as not to become subject to unconnected, dangerous, psychologically damaging feelings...
Getting back to innocence, or to primal crudity (for Dubuffet they are the same), without becoming a stylist is one of the 20th century's dreams. It presupposes a return to the origins of form, to the half-articulate, the instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink...