Word: modernistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Called the "prince of post-modernist trumbet-with-a-punch" in a recent Down Beat article, Bowie began his rise to jazz stardom in the early sixties, working with "doo-wop" bands, and backing the likes of Albert King and Joe Tex. He moved to Chicago in the mid-'60s, became a part of the "Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians," and in 1965 the critically acclaimed "Art Ensemble of Chicago...
...digging has thus far unearthed five volumes of poetry, including the bestseller Field Work (1979). Sweeney Astray, to be published next May by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, provides a festival of Heaneyan contradictions. The hero is a modernist ideal: wounded, cunning, lyrical and deranged. His name inescapably recalls T.S. Eliot's Irish vulgarian "Apeneck Sweeney ... among the nightingales." Yet Heaney's man is not a commoner but a king, and he does not merely listen to birds, he becomes one. Sweeney Astray is in fact not an original poem but a brilliant rendition of the 7th century Irish legend...
...Rather of CBS coincidentally arrived from New York City aboard the same plane; Rather rode coach, while his fellow millionaires went first-class. The three networks sent about 400 people to Des Moines and spent perhaps $3 million on ad hoc studios. CBS took over and closed off the modernist Civic Center for its newsroom (and already has it booked for 1988). NBC set up shop in the grand ballroom of the Hotel Savery in downtown Des Moines, renting two full floors for offices. ABC crammed itself into a Holiday Inn banquet room. As usual, the networks raced ahead...
These academics, once scorned by modernist taste but now almost as rehabilitated as their pupils, gave new American art its pedigree. At one point Gérôme had 90 American students. As an American critic remarked in 1864, "We have not time to invent and study everything anew. The fast-flying 19th century would laugh us to scorn should we attempt it. No one dreams of it in science, ethics or physics. Why then propose it in art?" It may be that even the most "American" of Eakins' paintings-his rowing scenes on the Schuylkill River...
...give paintings titles like Two Figures Standing Before a Pile of Excrement without offending someone), received the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church; his death was attended by the priests whom surrealism, a profoundly Catholic movement, once despised. Miró was the last of the great modernist inventors, if you concede that neither Salvador Dali nor Marc Chagall, both still alive, is quite in that league. Now they are all dead, the artists born between 1880 and 1900 who reshaped both culture and consciousness. Although it would be pious to suppose that much of Miró's work...