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The first of the series, "End of the Brownstone Era or Tower of Babel," is a canvas crowded with the mass shapes of an urban nightmare. Harshly cubist in its leanings, the work centers on a large tower pricking its way from the sludge of sewers into a haze of...

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Exhibitions A Delicate Balance | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

The third work displays rebirth for the city, vivid with prayer and Biblical symbolism. The new structures are jagged but small, clinging to one another rather than pushing into the sky. Significantly, Lichtblau's city is reborn into the form of a village, a characteristic nostalgia.

Author: By Bruce E. Johnson, | Title: Exhibitions A Delicate Balance | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

The I.P.O. management, therefore, is naturally sensitive to the taste of its public. Last season, the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Zubin Mehta was chosen as long-range music advisor of the orchestra, and he hoped to modernize the repertory. This season Mehta sandwiched a few more or less contemporary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Schoenberg for Others | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

Granite Slabs. Wilson traces the path of the rise (see map) by such subtle evidence as heat flow in rocks, remains of ancient magnetic fields and the variations in the velocity of seismic waves under different parts of the West. He also points to much more conspicuous signs of its...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Why the West Is Wild | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

The Zen distrust of theory and doctrine was summed up by Liang K'ai, an artist of the early 13th century, who captured in a few exquisitely jagged brush strokes an illiterate patriarch, howling with glee, tearing up a sutra, or sacred text. It is an Oriental parallel to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Sudden Enlightenment | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

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