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...enduring and continuingly communicating record of man's emotional response to his existence. This applies to all of the traditional fine arts, music, poetry, drama, architecture, painting, sculpture, etc., but obviously has little bearing on many current creations, collectively best described as the neo-excretionist school...
...hard, bright images of the current scene, now on view at Manhattan's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, make Lindner seem almost pop. But he is 65 and neo-nothing. He has successfully spanned the decades between the black Brechtian satire of his early years in pre-Hitler Germany and the machine-tempered, mass-produced present...
...years ago, when young Peter Brandt put his signature on a Communist-front petition accusing the U.S. of atrocities in Viet Nam. This time Peter, 18, has teamed up with his young brother, Lars Brandt, 16, to play in a film version of Günter Grass's neo-Gothic novel, Cat and Mouse. The mousetrap is that Lars, as Joachim Mahlke, the adolescent hero of the story, appears in one scene wearing bathing trunks and twirling an Iron Cross, Germany's highest medal for bravery. Germans grumbled about the "tastelessness" of that little bit, as well...
Georgio was a neo-surrealist. He and Andy had barhopped in Paris and New York with Hemingway, Dylan Thomas and other experimental creative minds still living. "Tanta" Honey-Lou bought the wild paintings of Georgio and miscellaneous cohorts--she was their patron goddess. Her top-floor studio which led onto the terrace and pool, was hung with eleven portraits done by thankful young admiring artists she had helped. Not flattering ones only. In one she was a pale-green mermaid, with an ochre heart, but still with her own silky orange hair. At 45, her bikinied figure was a source...
...section "Voices of Revolution" is especially interesting because it brings the reader into the atmosphere of a political rally. Leaders from Venezuela, Mozambique, and Peru pound out the inexorable logic of their position, call for unity of classes, and preach nationalism. The spout neo-Marxian polemics--"We have nothing to lose but the chains that destroy our dignity;" and the revolutionary vocabulary of diatribe--"imperialism," "industrial reserve army," and "pauperization...