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...with artistic creativity, art combined with craft, superior industrial design integrated into everyday life, and universal communication through common functional terms. Despite dogmas and manifestoes, the freedom and complexity of Bauhaus work can be seen in Paul Klee's Bauhaus work, which combines spontaneity and discipline. klee's spidery sketches are whimsical, ironic and sometimes ridiculous. They are supported by intricate color grids. Following Groplus' belief of applying fine art to crafts, klee's official role was as a teacher of bookbinding. Two Johannes Itten works exhibited also reveal Bauhaus idiosyncracies, Itten was later to stress a common vocabulary...
...body of Radical Children is a series of four archetypes, "exemplary stories, stories about parents and children, which describe the transactions that went on between us." The four sketches are entitled. "The Drop-Out." "The Pothead," "The Sexual Revolutionist," and "The Communard." She refers to her characters as "the young man" or "the girl's father." Each sketch describes the main character's upbringing, his growing disaffection with society, and his parents' bewilderment...
...which isn't to say that Decter's theories might not have something to them. They're just hard to evaluate. Many of her ideas have a shred of truth behind the exaggeration and the fog of her own values; for example, her sketch of "The Sexual Revolutionist" who, aided by modern contraceptive technology and by her liberal mother, falls into a series of relationships based only on sex and finally revolts against sex completely, joining a commune of women who reject their sexual exploiters, seems fairly plausible. On the other hand, Decter cannot imagine that the revolt may have...
...turn from specimens of human perfection into examples of the social perversions which she attributes to the youth of the 60s is all here. These are parents who did their best to bring their children up right, and as a result their children will never be satisfactory adults. Each sketch ends with a total breakdown in communication. The child leaves, and the parents are left stunned, offering up "a silent prayer" for their child's "success...
Against all odds - and Director J. Lee Thompson (The Guns ofNavarone, Conquest of the Planet of the Apes) makes sure there are plenty - she makes a quick, heartbreaking sketch of the sad, saving reveries of age. She has all the unplanned grace and unguarded, surprised emotion of a nonprofessional, and it is a pleasure to salute...