Word: expressionist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betty Parsons Gallery in Manhattan, is praised even more by such Catholic intellectuals as Philosopher Jacques Maritain, Jesuit Theologian Martin D'Arcy and Author Thomas Merton. "Here," writes Merton, a Trappist monk in Kentucky, "we see a breakthrough of genuine spiritual light into the art of an abstract expressionist...
...evening, WOR gets farther out. At 11:15 Jean Shepherd comes on, a brilliant and undisciplined night sprite. A sort of oral abstract expressionist, Shepherd begins to talk, gains speed, and skims along by free association. He remembers his Indiana boyhood with a command of imagery so precise that he can spin into the air everything from the smell of an old-fashioned icebox to the guilty excitement of an adolescent boy looking through a stack of Breezy Story Magazines down in a corner of the cellar. When he begins to run out of breath, jazz comes on softly behind...
...same bill, Peter Lorre plays a homicidal Humbert Humbert in "M," a German expressionist film that was shown here last spring. It's well worth seeing again, especially since Zero for Conduct plays with...
...rainstorm begins: motorists keep windshield wipers locked away in the trunk when not in use. since spare parts are all but unobtainable. Reporting that many Russians have a thorough knowledge of American art and literature, he related a talk he had with one man about the late Abstract Expressionist Jackson Pollock. "He died in an auto accident," Paar had told the Russian. Looking furtively from side to side, the Russian said he knew that...
...Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances of drug-taking...They want to carry nothing forward, but to get rid of all their inherited aesthetic and intellectual lumber; they have...