Word: starks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JAKE: The buildings' stark shells enwrapping the fervid human dramas unrolling in moments of lightning-fast perception before my very eyes so that I can scarce catch my breath between sobs...
...British have already scored with Bridget Riley, 32 (TIME, May 1), whose stark black-and-white patterns have made viewers physically sick. She generally lets craftsmen execute her designs, has a standoffishness and coolth matched by her countryman, Steele. "These pictures are not necessarily meant to be looked at," says Steele. Another Englishman is Cambridge-educated Michael Kidner (below), at 46 one of the oldest of the flicker boys. Years ago he bashed away at abstract expressionism, but, says he, "never convinced myself that the gesture I was making had much significance." Then he learned that he could make people...
...Russian film and naturally there's plenty of pseudo-classic montage, dramatic sky and stark, navel-level camera work, but the really exciting footage owes something to the early German directors. Wasn't it Robert Weine who painted the foreboding expressionist shadows on the set of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari? And Carl Mayer who strapped a camera on Carl Freund, the "drunk" camera man of The Last Laugh...
...among the first to congratulate the artist on a magnificent portrait. Its stark drabness makes one swallow and look again; Oswald's searching eyes reveal the madman he really was. Moreover, it is interesting to speculate on the meaning of the stained wall behind...
...James Joyce had lived 20 years longer he would have produced as his chef d'oeuvre, Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe. Such a rich vision of reality, so wide a breadth of knowledge, such stark symbolism is indeed beyond the reach of any contemporary writer. Today the CRIMSON literati have pooled their talents to analyze the T. Th. (S.) sections of the master-work and help all you striving Daedaluses reach the equanimity of Leopold Bloom...