Word: satirists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SIEGE OF HARLEM, by Warren Miller. Taking his cue from black nationalist tirades, Satirist Miller turns Harlem into an independent nation. If the subject doesn't seem funny in a summer of rioting, it is the best proof yet of Miller's skill as a writer and his knowledge of Harlem, where he lived for five years...
...hear every day-vacuum cleaners, dishwashers, telephones, buses, fire engines-why shouldn't they be in pictures?" asks Venetian-born Marina Stern. Though this follows the logic of pop art, she denies that she is a pop artist: "Pop art accepts everything. I'm more of a satirist. I like to get a little dig in. What pop art has done is to release all of us to be playful. Abstract expressionism is so serious. Two years ago I wouldn't have dared to make paintings like these, and no gallery would have dared to show them...
Beyond the Pages. As satire, Monocle falls somewhat short of Jonathan Swift -who may have been the last satirist to make a decent living. But Swift and Monocle chose the same targets: politics, pettifoggery and government. "I haven't checked these figures," began Monocle's Gettysburg Address as it might have been written by Dwight Eisenhower, "but 87 years ago, I think it was, a number of individuals organized a governmental setup here in this country. I don't like to appear to take sides...
...other hand, the blossoming of a long-repressed joie de vivre is the theme, then sunny Italy will unlock the passion in the tourist's heart (Goethe, Mann, E. M. Forster). But whoever would have thought of th Soviet Union as an emotional catalyst? Well, nobody, until British Satirist Anthony Burgess came along...
...ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist...