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What is it about the somber landscapes and meticulously rendered portraits of Andrew Wyeth that makes them so phenomenally popular? The poetic magic of their realism, which not only equals but surpasses the photographic image, some feel. "It is Wyeth's feeling of loneliness that makes people respond-that feeling that exists in every human being at some time in his life," suggested one curator as Wyeth's 223-picture retrospective exhibition arrived at Manhattan's Whitney Museum last week...
...theme, the more basic conflict between illusion and reality. The first scene of Blow-Up introduces the photographer as he leaves a flop-house where he spent the night; we learn that he had gone to photograph the sick old men who sleep there. This personal preference for social realism over fashion proves the photographer dedicated. But in photographing the tragedy and problems of other people, the photographer in Blow-Up substitutes this for an understanding and eventual solution of his own problems. The reality of the photographs becomes the photographer's only reality. Antonioni, therefore, sets up a paradox...
This kind of realism can be carried to riduculous extremes, as a freak exponent of the genre--The Spy with a Cold Nose--attempts to prove. Here the spy, played by Lionel Jeffries, has a nagging wife, a nitwit sidekick, a deaf secretary in her second childhood, and an office not unlike one of your local Chinese laundries. But though the wit lasts about forty-five minutes, the film's running time is considerably longer...
...giving the money directly to the Negro family in the form of a family allowance is not even suggested in the report, a document in any event destined for instant obscurity. The delegates were bored from the outset, and contented themselves with passing resolutions of no greater political realism than the report itself: "That J. Edgar Hoover be fired," "That the President ask for $2 billion to enforce Civil Rights laws." The President spoke briefly and warned his hearers not to expect miracles...
...conference groups will deal with "Symbolism in English and American Literature" fall term and "The American Story-Chronicle" spring term. Berthoff's fall term graduate seminar will be titled "Studies in American Realism...