Word: der
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Museum staged its "Primary Structures" show, with Free Ride in its entry court. Minimal art was officially launched-and so was Tony Smith. As a movement, minimal art seemed out to prove to the hilt Architect Mies van der Rohe's dictum: less is more. Many of the objects were simply boxes, beams of steel or lines of bricks. Any figurative suggestions were banned. So was any sign of the craftsman's personal touch: whether large or small, the objects were commercially constructed, color was applied with a spray gun. The aim seemed to be to assault...
Died. Ludwig Donath, 67, Viennese-born character actor; of leukemia; in Manhattan. A well-known supporting actor in Austria and Germany in the 1930s, Donath was active in the anti-Nazi underground before fleeing to Hollywood in 1940. His thick accent made him a natural cinema Nazi, including der Führer himself in 1943's The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler, but his talent soon found other roles-most notably Al Jolson's cantor-father...
English is virtually without gender-it is, in fact, suspiciously without sex. Dr. Hartogs was educated in Germany, where a girl (das Mddchen) is neuter, spring (der Fruhling) is masculine, and a door (die Tiir) is feminine (apparently the doctor cannot bear to hear one slammed). As he sees it, a language in which only he and she are sexed must be up to no good. In English, what is the sex of a bicycle, an eggplant, a subway? None. And what does this engender? According to Dr. Hartogs and Hans Fantel, a "professional writer" who has tried to guide...
...strictly a two-dimensional world. As if straining to portray flesh-and-blood emotion, he gave his people big noses, pudding faces, puffy eyelids, and the result was often close to caricature. He himself was not capable of the profound humanity expressed by Flanders' Rogier van der Weyden, nor does his dry decorative line even suggest the sublimely anguished figures of his countrymen to come, Dürer and Grünewald...
...maze - done by students at Los Angeles' Immaculate Heart College un der the direction and guidance of Sister Mary Corita Kent, 49 - is the latest project of the nation's best-known teaching nun. Sister Corita's own vibrant silk-screen serigraphs have been pur chased by leading museums in Europe and the U.S., and last year were exhibited at 150 shows. Versatile and prolific, she did a large serigraph exhibit for the Vatican pavilion at the New York World's Fair, designed advertisements for Westinghouse, and gift wrapping for Neiman-Marcus. Her friends range from...