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...almost calligraphic in their approach, assimilating the idiom of Japanese expression through the medium of the camera. The photographs of the Nixon-Eisenhower campaign in Texas brought home the unbiased catholicism of Cartier-Bresson's intuition. He did not exploit or criticize, as a European or an artist, the stark tribal events of this country, but rather absorbed the faces, the landscapes, the posters...
...novelist who wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), and Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), is--if one were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served...
...company tears fresh loaves of pumpernickel into bits and passes them through the audience-an artistic communion that both engages the viewers' participation and sets the group's humanistic tone. "All of our shows are for good and against evil," insists Schumann. They are played in stark terms. In Reiteration, the actors wear grotesque masks; one wears a skull, another a gas mask, others are in oriental or black face, While Schumann announces each scene, the actors walk through a slow-motion allegory condemning the Viet...
...chalk landscapes are very unusual--ephemeral, misty, and soft. Six Boucher studies are included, among them a wonderful study of hands, and a head by Bernini and one by Watteau. Contemporary drawings by Giacomo Porzano ("Man with a Cigarette") and Walt Kuhn ("Study for the painting 'Roberto'") are very stark and striking...
...back to the early 1960s, when he and other young artists were rebelling against the prevailing mode of abstract expression. Samaras' way of celebrating the long-ignored object was to summon up his disturbing Macedonian memories. Matchbook and spectacles, in a 1962 ink drawing, were depicted with the stark frontality of a Byzantine icon. Samaras also created silvery, pin-encrusted books and boxes that suggested silver reliquaries. They were packed with knives and razors, nails, stuffed birds and X rays of skulls trepanned by pins, together with photos of Samaras...