Word: durer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...give him the same "experience" as the original. It is the critic's bias against the reproduction that somehow makes it "worse." If the reproductions offer the same experience as the original, why shouldn't they be considered worthwhile? For centuries artists have reproduced their art--engravers like Albrecht Durer and William Blake made rough woodblocks of their originals and printed dozens of copies to sell. They certainly didn't consider it demeaning...
...Revere's Boston," is finishing its five-month run. It's interesting for colonial silver-and-furniture buffs, but I for one am becoming very bored with the eighteenth century. just opened is an exhibit called "Northem Prints of the Late Middle Ages"--including Holbein's Dance of Death, Durer's Melancholla and other masterpieces. Certainly worth catching. Through Dec. 7; the MFA is free on Sundays from...
...production of La Traviata, and cocktail parties at which members of both the New Yorker and the New York Review of Books will be present. And, oh, he thinks as he asks "When does this book circulate for the vacation?" there is to be a showing of rarely-seen Durer prints at a nearby museum (considered by most to be one of the finest in the world). Finally the last lecture comes and goes and it's off to the airport and a short plane ride to the city that many compare to a rather large apple. Getting...
Prints at the Fogg--woodcuts, engravings, etchings and drypoints from Durer to Franz Kline. This is an excellently planned exhibit, in the L-shaped gallery in the back corner that nobody ever visits its purpose is to be a teaching tool for the Freshman seminar on Prints and Printmaking, and it does a good job of explaining how the various kinds of prints and papers are made...
Finally, a reminder. The Goya show at the Museum of Fine Arts is the finest show of graphic work in this area since the similar one the MFA presented on Durer three years ago. I'll discuss it more thoroughly next week, but if you get a chance this weekend, go see it. It is outstanding...