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Deluded by Camp Followers. Faced with what often seems outrageous demands for superscale ("The less the content, the more the discussion," snapped one critic), for imagery that can verge from the erotic to the apotheosis of the ordinary, the art fancier understandably asks: "What is art?" Replies Samuel Adams Green, who supervised the installation of New York's outdoor sculpture show: "Everything is art if it is chosen by the artist to be art." But even Green was taken aback when Sculptor Claes Oldenburg, known for his spoofing soft-plastic sculptures, last week ordered a hole dug in Central...
...totally different class. Far from being impersonal and "cool," his work exuded a life and an almost menacing presence of its own. In December 1966, Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum and Philadelphia's Institute of Contemporary Art staged Tony Smith's first one-man show-or shows. Samuel Wagstaff, a curator at the Atheneum, decided to put four of Smith's pieces outside because "we felt that we ought to expand into the street." Smith delightedly constructed a new mock-up of Cigarette, double-size. It was a sensation. Next, Smith's works were assembled...
Foretaste of Freedom. The idea of hope comes from a kindly farmer, Samuel Turner, whose surname Nat assumes. When the young slave steals a book, his master sees proof that Nat is no less a man than himself. An educational experiment begins, during which the pupil absorbs the rudiments of scholarship along with a bitter truth: "The preacher was right. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow...
...Samuel Turner has plans to free his pet slave. The prospect appalls Nat: servitude and this loving master are all that he has known. Yet the foretaste of freedom, as Styron insists throughout the book, can only excite growing hunger. In one morning, in one glimpse of the possibilities of the future, Samuel Turner converts Nat forever into a hu man being burning to be free...
Harlon Dalton '69, president of the H-R YD's, Samuel Brown Jr., a Divinity student who served on the National Student Association supervisory board last year during the CIA controversy, and officers of the Law School Young Democrats were also brought into early discussions...