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Regardless, Martin's biography has done much to stimulate a revival of interest in West. It would be difficult to place him as a major artist of the first half of the twentieth century, but his contribution to literature is significant. Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, probably his best novels, are both short, compressed and episodic, anticipating forms only now being elaborated by Brautigan and Barthelme. West's use of artifacts from mass culture and delicate caricatures during a time concerned with the purity of literature evidences his versatile and original talent. However, he made very little...
...Black Studies programs also have a "functional" role in contemporary society. W. E. B. DuBois said nearly seventy years ago that the problem of the twentieth century was the problem of the color line. That statement is as true today as it was in 1903. New ideas and approaches are desperately needed to dissemble the matrix of the American racial dilemma. That the old approaches are not resolving problems arising out of that matrix has long been evident...
...Forum. The sophomores concentrating in Fine Arts who organized it set out "to create an occasion when the interested public can be introduced to art at Harvard." I'm glad they went to the trouble, even if art at Harvard seems to fall well within conventional lines of late twentieth century art. For Art Forum testifies that there are artists-to-be around who are making the necessary investigations into material, form, and expression which are prerequisite to achievement. And they're turning out credible art at the same time...
...landscape with field and trees. David Brown uses elaborate surface treatment to an entirely different end. His "Life: Elaine" is a mannered portrait of a lady with classically abstracted features and gilt collar and background. It could be a painting of the sixteenth century. But there is a stylistically twentieth century figure off to one side, and a plastic coating makes the lady gleam-perfected, distant, and ideal...
...exhibition itself reinforces this feeling of distance from the twentieth century by having so many pieces of actual furniture and whole rooms where you can stick your head over the rail into nineteenth century atmosphere. The material presence of the decoration-the glass, the silk, the gold knick-knacks-settles the paintings in history...