Word: pureed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pure Dirt. In enlightened 1968, even New York's moderately avant-garde critics are prepared to agree with Tuttle that yes, indeed all this may be art. But what kind of art? Some call it "antiform," for its outlines-or rather, its conspicuous efforts to avoid them. Others call it "process art," for it proudly shows off the marks of the process by which it was made. Another term is "conceptual art," for in every case, the concept behind the piece is infinitely more impressive than the workmanship. And "conceptual art," everybody agrees, is deliberately made hard to understand...
...than 300 votaries along East 66th Street in a communal robe. There were the "earthworks" artists at the Dwan Gallery, who had assembled works replete with peat and petroleum jelly. Meanwhile, their leader, Walter de Maria, 33, was filling three rooms of a Munich gallery with eight tons of "pure dirt, pure earth, pure land...
...take the Beatles seriously, we should at least face a possibility that the kind of animation we want to see accompanying their songs resembles the best of Vanderbeek or Lamb or the pure and magnificent computer art recorded with increasing frequency on film--not necessarily the ravishing Alice in Nighttown that this vast assortment of writers, animators, and artists are offering us currently at the Beacon Hill...
...Cheat an Honest Man --Among the funnier Fields pictures, this one offers him as a circus impressario with a desirable daughter and debts. The Lake Titicaca episode and the pingpong game are pure genius. At the SYMPHONY II, 262 Huntington...
FOUR-LETTER WORDS aside, the dialogue of Sligar stretches the imagination almost as much as the plot construction. The lines range from pure exposition to the hokey (Father, speaking of the son: "He called me old man!") to the absurd ("I don't know where you're headed, but you're going to be pushed there damn fast."). Some of the worst writing centers around Paul's teenage affair, gratuitously stuck into the second half--complete with flashback...