Word: rhythms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...contrast, the Negroes unconsciously adopted the role of the aggressor. "Whites aren't as good. The white people slide; we glide. We have natural born rhythm. They can't dance. Can't sing soul. We're naturally strong. And we got better girls...
...noon lecture classes, Tuesday evenings a seminar. Afternoons, he receives visitors, counsels students, answers mail, and reads. He is a Trollope addict?"Trollope tells a story as it should be told, lots of nourishment and no nonsense"?and finds a few minutes' perusal of Jane Austen's easy "rhythm" just right to prime his own writing pump. Like Trollope, he believes that "writing is high craftsmanship, rather than inspiration." His wit and seeming spontaneity generally come only after five revisions...
Richter considers not visual art but music "my principal inspiration." As a child in Berlin, he became fascinated with the impeccable synthesis of logic and rhythm found in the fugues of J. S. Bach. His rhythmically fragmented paintings of musicians made under the cubist-futurist influence around 1914, show him striving for a visual emulation of Bach's counterpoint...
...Richter joined up with the anarchistic Dadaists in Zurich. Nonetheless, his basic predilection for order made him equally sympathetic to the constructivists. In his "scroll paintings," he experimented with a constructivist image, repeated with variations, along a long panel. From there, it was only a step, in 1921, to Rhythm 21, one of the first art films made...
...Rhythm 21 consisted of squares, hypnotically regrouping themselves into evolving sets of Mondrians. Later films employed surrealistic glass eyes and bowler hats skittering through the air. An outspoken opponent of Nazism, Richter was forced to flee Germany and emigrated to the U.S., where he produced Dreams That Money Can Buy, a surrealist fantasy starring his fellow émigrés Duchamp...