Word: realist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comes to purchasing costly masterpieces. With gaping holes in their collections, they are long on aspirations, short on funds. Such was the case when the Milwaukee Art Center's director, Tracy Atkinson, found a fine Gustave Courbet portrait. Milwaukee had nothing by the early 19th century French realist, but the not unreasonable price tag in New York's Knoedler Gallery read...
...four-letter-word fans who filled the Ames Courtroom last night to hear a talk by Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, were not dissappointed. The self-styled "sexual libertine" was armed even with red, white, and blue posters of obscenity...
Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, will give a talk entitled "An Evening with a Self-Styled Phony, or I Was a Teach-in Dropout," tonight at 8:30 in the Ames Courtroom of Austin Hall. Proceeds will go for the support of law students working on northern and southern civil rights projects this summer...
...Frenchman who, in his addiction to brightness, persuaded his wife to wear fluorescent-hued shoes. Then, he says, "I found neon. It is living color, a color beyond color. The pen and the brush are outdated." He thinks of himself not as pop or op but as "a neon-realist." Says he: "I want everything in my work to be good-looking and brand-new. If you draw a Picasso and put neon on it, you don't have anything new." Raysse has fallen in love with painting in light: "Neon most accurately expresses modern life; it is standard...
Double Standard. By that measure, at least, even Fulbright was a realist last week. After his committee's second session on Viet Nam, the Arkansas Democrat complained: "I have never seen an issue on which there has been such uncertainty. There were no such differences in the Korean War or World War II. One reason is that this situation isn't very clear...