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...with each other at the same time that they drive toward "the same Carthaginian end." The first is the group he labels the "Abolitionists," those creators of romantic art in literature, painting and music whose dream is to erase the great art of the past and to fill the void with a new consciousness: "So far, the sounds of electronic music are meaningless, like the drippings and droppings of the abstract expressionist and action painters, like the words and images that the beat poets seek to capture with a tape recorder during their mindless monologues or in the trances...
...could be manipulated into an infinite number of arrangements. Vieira da Silva begins a work with no image in mind: the painting starts out as a "skeleton"-a few lines or points or cells-and then leads the artist on. "I always have a line to add or a void to fill," she says...
...magazines make their debuts this week, one an old trouper in a gaudy new dress, the other a flossy stranger dedicated to filling a self-discovered void...
...magazine industry is not flourishing," says A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford in an introductory note to his new monthly, Show. "Why, then, a new publication at such a time?" Because, says Hartford, there was "no all-embracing publication of culture and the arts," and Show "will fill this void," at $1 per issue. If there was indeed such a void, it is still yawning. Show's first issue offers the less than startling news that lower production costs could cure Broadway's ills and that ABC-Television is run by men with the creative imagination of soap salesmen...
...born in Upstate New York. But he owed nothing to their plodding example, for Dove was a trail blazer. Long before fashions changed. Dove pointed-and painted-toward abstract expressionism. After a start as a successful magazine illustrator, he turned to illustrating inner vision rather than outer void. Wrote Humorist Bert L. Taylor of Dove...