Word: yawping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is a pretty good tribute to this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant and sometimes very corny artist. Kienholz didn't believe in refinement. What he believed in was a combination of technical know-how, moral anger and all-American barbaric yawp. Moving through the show is like being alternately slugged and hectored by a redneck Godzilla with strong libertarian-anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed or Jasper Johns to re-weld a railing, but Kienholz...
...Lowell courtyard and stroll into the Yard, and you're again reminded of our intrepid final club brothers. Ah, me. A young man runs up the steps of the library, carrying a keg atop his head. He's made it to the top, and is sounding a barbaric yawp! Hurrah! Three cheers for the old boys...
...screen "collages" of the early '60s, Salle learned about piling unrelated images onto a canvas, the difference being that Salle hasn't a trace of the lyrical sharpness and poetic force of vintage Rauschenberg. His tone is a supercilious droning, very far from Rauschenberg's enthused, life-enhancing Barbaric Yawp...
...ideas and momentous events, scraping by on stipends and feeling generally Olympian, he had neglected to file income tax returns between 1946 and 1955. The distinguished delinquent eventually paid up, but to settle the score he wrote The Cold War and the Income Tax, a 118-page pained yawp that argued there was not much difference between the IRS and the KGB. "The truth," wrote Wilson in 1963, "is that the people of the United States are at the present time dominated and driven by two kinds of officially propagated fear: fear of the Soviet Union and fear...