Word: arts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DRAGON, by Marie Halun Bloch, illustrated by Yaroslava (Atheneum; $4.95). Two books, both worth reading, based on the same-folk tale-though the first claims to be Russian, the second Ukrainian. The Bogdanovic casein and pastel illustrations are blurrily magical. Yaroslava's precise pictures are closer to folk art...
America's Puritan sense tends to regard evil in stark terms of black and white. It has been pointed out endlessly, and correctly, that the western, with its crude division of good guys and bad guys, is the nation's archetypal art form. Evil has thus been transmogrified, whenever possible, into the definable, detestable enemy-like Hitler, say-who could always be defeated by the forces of justice. The national instinct to juxtapose good and evil is summed up with only a touch of irony by W. H. Auden's nostalgic reference to simpler times...
MAKING things by hand is so time-consuming that a craftsman has to pass his works off as Art. Then people will pay him the high wages accorded to Art, rather than the low wages paid for utilitarian things...
...more than six dollars for the pair. Which meant I would get three. I gave up the business. The alternative was to make the same thing over and over. which would have been efficient but boring. Of course, Alexander Calder and Salvador Dali sell their jewelry as Art, and get considerably more than six dollars per piece...
Also at Boston University, Kim Newcomb's iridescent blown glass "Hot Dogs and Potato Chips" testifies to the influence of pop art on craftsmen. Blown glass potato chips really have to be seen to be visualized. The idea of doing this subject in such an elegant and delicate media. complete with paper napkins, plaster milk, and on an ordinary cafeteria tray really strikes the literary more than the visual funny bone. And Arneson's gawky earthenware bathroom sink is so literary that it even has a punchline-the brown splotch in the bowl is labeled "hard to get out stain...