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...cosmos, all but obliterated the supernatural dimension of life. Urbanization has made the rural imagery of Scripture incomprehensible to "hungry sheep" who have never seen one. A radically aggressive atheism demands God's death for the sake of human freedom. New philosophies stare uncomprehendingly at seemingly static Christian doctrines 1,500 years old. For Christians, the age of anxiety is the age of ebbing faith, and Bishop Pike is not the only prophet crying out for the church to restate, reshape, renew. "Now is the time to renew, while there are still people in the church to renew with...
...directly into the composition of his paintings. Jasper Johns developed on this approach by focusing on familiar objects individually so that the objects became the center of interest rather than a visual component of a larger composition. Jasper Johns' painting of Three Flags is one of the first completely static paintings in modern art. Its lack of visual movement, makes it an almost emblematic representation. Yet, both Rauschenberg and Johns handle paint with an individual expressive style...
Today that very serious dialogue is difficult, oblique and garbled. It sometimes seems like a bad phone connection-full of static, elusive, abrupt, frustrating and almost hostile. U.S. playwrights have even cut the wire-for the moment they have nothing to say about either humanity or the human predicament. That poet of the violated heart, Tennessee Williams, may return to his best form at any time; meanwhile, he carries repetition to the edge of self-parody (The Mutilated) or attempts religious allegories (Milk Train) in which symbols masquerade as wonders. Arthur Miller thumbs disconsolately through a three-hour "Dear Diary...
...idea of harmony is socially authoritarian-it depends on the static society, in which authority flows downward from above. Status based on skill or achievement can only be disruptive in such a world. "What do you do?" is the American conversational icebreaker; "Who are you?" is what the Asian wants to know. The Indian caste system is only the most elaborate expression of this fact; caste and status are important everywhere in Asia...
...picking Le Pare, the jury fulfilled a need for art to outpace popular appreciation. Pop itself, restricted to the sophisticated scavenger's delight, or the satirist's mocking image, has grown familiar and static. Op and kinetic art, like that of Le Fare's, are less human because they are less dependent on whim and whimsy. In the ephemeral flow of contemporary styles, this art chitters and clatters on ahead like a mechanical rabbit with transistorized circuits...