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...called "progressive" intellectuals scarcely deserve the name intellectual, thinks Tibor Szamuely, onetime history professor at Budapest University I and now a political lecturer at the University of Reading. Their involvement in politics, he writes, is "fundamentally nonintellectual. It is practically impossible to carry on a rational argument about Viet Nam, to hear a case against U.S. policy made in coherent, analytical, factual terms. Secure under the protection of U.S. firepower-and knowing this, and hating himself for knowing it-the intellectual cries out for more stories of American atrocities...
Primitive in manner and thickly impastoed, Grooms's paintings are nostalgic vignettes of ordinary life. In a show of 36 works, which opened in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy gallery last week, he proves an ability to make folk theater in paint. In his Slab City Rendezvous, for instance, people misproportioned in daydream dimensions pose in the front yard of a Maine summer home, while an artist and his easel stand on the rooftop, projecting above the frame's edge. In Eighth Avenue Snow Scene, the street juts out in a stage set to frame kids pranking...
FRITZ BULTMAN-Tibor de Nagy, 149 East 72nd. Bultman is equally at home with painting and sculpture; an exhibition of both gives a wide-screen view of his work. His bronzes are small, allusive (Speaking, Hearing) abstractions that channel light through their fragile petals, while his paintings feature big, bold S-curves that sweep around the canvas in red, orange and black. Through...
...orange, grey, brown and blue paintings in Manhattan's Tibor de Nagy Gallery are intimate scenes: Mildred Lamar Hooking a Rug is as innocent as a colonial primitive; his children in a room or walking on the lawn are devoid of inward psychology or narrative in a marriage of abstract and realistic techniques. He achieves what he calls "an ambiguity between a realistic shape and a painting shape." In The Kittiwake and the John Walton, a Maine seascape of two boats, a hull and its shadow are equal pale blues that bobble on a pink sea. It is reality...
FAIRFIELD PORTER-Tibor de Nagy, 149 East 72nd. Porter took his training at the Art Students League from Thomas Hart Benton, felt "you don't deserve to paint abstractly until you can paint representationally." But he admits that De Kooning has been a major influence. One painting, September Clouds, points up that affinity: an abstract rendering of nature, it suggests that Porter is ready to follow a new path. Through April...