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...STELLA J. ABLOW...
...building was designed by Johnson, Hotvedt and Associates, Inc., of Boston, and will include a landscaped courtyard. Archeological artifacts will be dispersed throughout the building. A two-story Maya stella will dominate the library entrance, penetrating to the second floor of the building...
...helped very much by Rosemary Harris, whose Blanche is not coquettish enough to suggest any sexual chemistry. She seems too exclusively fanciful ever to be emotionally vulnerable. Blanche's sister Stella (Patricia Conolly) is born to the Southern man or, all right, but we have to take her visceral need for Husband Stanley on faith. Only Philip Bosco gives a performance of perfect pitch, as the shy wooer, "Mitch," who almost marries Blanche until Stanley blurts out the story of her promiscuous past...
...coming under increasing attack and other tendencies are being reemphasized. A series of recent critical forays have taken the formalists to task. Harold Rosenberg's The De-Definition of Art attacks the whole notion of a unified New York School in general and the minimal aesthetic of Frank Stella and others specifically. Its author was one of the original champions of "action painting"--of Pollock and the early abstract expressionists. And Leo Steinberg, perhaps the most academically respected critic now writing about contemporary art, has advanced in a major series of essays called Other Criteria a set of alternative values...
...anonymity of his work. Still--and De Antonio can't fail to show this much--there is a certain incongruity between say, the spare stripes or chevrons of Kenneth Noland and the explanations the artist delivers in a North Carolina drawl. Or, equally incongruous, the contrast between Frank Stella--sitting on the floor of his studio, dressed in an old sweat shirt and looking for all the world like Woody Allen slightly lisping his reply to the charge that his paintings are cold and detached--and his paintings themselves. If the incongruity itself is not the best proof...