Word: realms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burdened it for so long. He sought to dispell altogether the illusion of art. And if Duchamp's nihilistic assertions had been listened to the whole idea of art would long be abandoned. The idea, that is, of art as something separate from life roped off in a realm of its own, of art as responsible for bringing about a new existence through a revolution in consciousness, as something to be treasured while it mummifies in museums, as something that can accrue priceless value, or, for that matter, be bought and sold at all, and of the artist...
...clearly inapplicable to American society at present with its atomized social structure and schizophrenic life-styles. To read the essays of many of these new conservative writers in conjunction with, say, the entire journalistic opus of Tom Wolfe is to be aware that these conservative writers often inhabit a realm of abstraction penetrated at times by only vague eminences from the real world. Contemporary affluence has unleashed innumerable ego-trips, not the pursuit of virtue. The California electrical worker making $23,000 a year does not read Aristotle and Kant, he merely does weird things and is all too willing...
...NATURE OF courage and the tenuous link between its moral and physical forms is a confusing, unexplored realm. What appear to be the most demanding alternatives -- charging or refusing to -- are actually only the simplest. If I Die in a Combat Zone poses no answers, only elucidates the basic dilemma. It is eloquent, and it is powerful, and at times, it is even bitterly funny. But it is only a war story...
Cartooning has started making its way into art galleries in recent year, and for a time threatened to enter the realm of pure camp. Steinberg has had several shows, there was a Thomas Nast revival some time ago, and well-known commercial cartoonists are now able to sell their originals with relative ease. David Levine, whose caricatures of political and cultural figures helped propel The New York Review of Books into its ascendancy, is probably the best known figure. New York Times theater cartoonist Al Hirschfield, who specializes in seeing how many times he can scrawl his daughter's name...
...some taxable property, such as apartments, is desirable; proper pedestrian access to Brattle Square is a must; and some way (such as an overpass) for visitors to get to the Charles without being run down on Mem Drive would certainly be nice. All these objectives are within the realm of possibility if the City doesn't play politics and if the Kennedy Corporation doesn't arrogantly ignore the needs of the City...