Word: sargent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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written and directed by Lydia Sargent...
...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT COULD muster the kind of certainty of purpose and unity of action displayed by the seven actresses who parade through Lydia Sargent's sharp-toothed comedy revue, there would be no need for a dramatization of the troubled past and uncertain future of feminism. But as the players constantly remind is in I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine, the movement has not been so lucky...
...Harvard Rules" will include essays by such luminaries as Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Biology RuthHubbard and MIT Linguistics Noam Chomsky, as wellas several graduate students. The book "hasgenerated a lot of interest and received manyadvance offers," said Lydia Sargent, arepresentative of South End Press...
...word of caution is needed: Sargent's output was huge -- more than 800 portraits and innumerable sketches of people and places -- but its high points do stand out, and too many are missing here, from El Jaleo, 1882, the flamenco scene that is the masterpiece of his youth, to the Tate Gallery's portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, which, when exhibited in Paris before World War I, sent its public into raptures over ce grand diable de milord anglais. This show says little about its subject that was not put more economically by the 1979 Sargent exhibition at the Detroit Institute...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...