Picasso, panned and praised
By Mike Rose
< oddball, ugly pieces of art. Bur
theory that most historians
sheim said, “The more bizarre don’t have. I don’t care about
Picasso, the maker of it was, the better,, was the at people who disagree with me.
masterpieces and messes. Art titude of the Steins.”
Let them prove that I am
Department Chairman Norm
“As a joke, Leo Stein would wrong. Maybe some of them
Bursheim will examine take terrible pieces of art and can,” he added.
Picasso’s work in a lecture May justify them to party
6, 7:30 p.m. in the Communi gatherings,” Bursheim said,
Bursheim said, “There is a
ty Center Lounge.
Leo Stein was a brilliant tendency, if someone says
“The accumulation of speaker
and
clinical something is beautiful,
Picasso’s work is a great psychologist. “He could, take historians will pick this up and it
classic,” Bursheim said. “I will an obscure idea and build it in will become historical fact after
show that Picasso was an artist to something monumental.”
it has been repeated over and
who could do very fine work. I
Soon, ugly paintings were over in books. The problem is
will also show that he could do accepted as a legitimate art that the original statement may
some very sloppy work that 1 form, according to Bursheim. have been false,” Bursheim
would not call masterpieces.”
Picasso and others in the art said.
Bursheim believes that world got caught up in the
Picasso’s work was warped by Steins’ philosophy. The media
Despite his criticism, Bur-
his association with the odd, further popularized the Steins’. sheim is a Picasso fan. “Picasso
unconventional Gertrude and idea of art. Ugly, “messy pain created a tremendous amount
Leo Stein. In the 1920s, art tings” were soon tn vogue.
of vitality and energy in the art
buyers, artists, intellectuals and
A few have criticized Bur world. Picasso helped the art
unusual people would gather at sheim for his concept of “ugly world break out of old ideas
the Steins’ European home. messies.” Bursheim said, “I and into the area of abstract
The Stein home was filled with have a degree in design and art,” he said.
Of The Print
Staff photo by Duffy Coffman
?oet recites prose
I By Wanda Percival
Of The Print
I “Edward Field is probably
I the only poet you’ll ever meet
I pho makes a living writing
I poetry,” was the introduction
I jiven by English instructor
I Hike Kepler for a poetry
I presentation given by Field, a
I professional poet.
I Field appeared in Kepler’s
■Poetry Literature” classes
Bionday to read and discuss his
■works. His poems consist most
ly of experiences concerning
Bis family background, his.Up-
Bringing and areas of the world
In which he’s traveled and liv-
Bd. His tone sways Smoothly
Irom sincere works of his fami
ly. like “My Polish Grandma”
■which tells of his grandmother
eking her children illegally out
l)f Poland to America), to a
iasual humor satirizing areas
nroughout the world, such as
■Roaches,” which deals with
loaches in New York.
I Other works by Field include
■A Bill to My Father,” “The
■ailspin” (also a movie in the
fOs), “Mae West,” “The Bride
of Frakenstein,” and “The
Sleeper.”
Field grew" up in Lynbrook,
N.Y. He began writing at the
age of 18 while serving in
World War II. At 23, his first
poem was published by a Euro
pean magazine. From there, he
went on to other magaznes,
striving to make it as a writer.
“I was the black sheep in my
family until I was 38. Then, by
first book, ‘Stand Up Friend
With Me,’ was published, and
suddenly I became the family
star,” said Fields. That book
earned him the Lamond
Award.
Since then, Field has been
the editor of “A Geography of
Poets,” a collection of works by
various poets throughout the
world.
Currently, Field lives in New
York, but his next book,
“Village,” scheduled to come
out in January, 1982, has
already won him the Prix de
Roma award, an honorary
grant from the Academy of
Arts and Letters which will pro
vide him a year of living and
working in Rome.
HC/DC spurs trash-rockers
By
Tom Jeffries
■ The Print
■ Recorded five years ago,
■Dirty Deeds Done Dirt
■heap” was held from release
ur til after the death of
AC/DC’s Bon Scott. It is too
fete to pay tribute to one of the
important molders of this
album, but it remains an ex-
cellent album for fans who like
■hat AC/DC produces: trash
■>ck.
■ AC/DC has never worried
too much about social issues,
■hey are at what could be con-
■dered the bottom of the social
■ale. Their songs are usually
¿out sex, drugs, money,
■usic and other “necessities”
of life. They like it that wayf
and so do their fans. Their
■usic does not uplift, or
Bonder obscurities.
■Not up to the standard of
Kir recently released “Back in
■ack,’’ “Dirty Deeds” far ex
Beds their other works,
■though their new lead singer,
Brien Johnson, is easier to
understand, Bon Scott had a
Kwn-dirty quality to his voice
■hich not only matched their
style of music, but also set them Rockin,” have a style rooted in
further apart from the soft- ’50s rock ’n’ roll.
cultured voices of the pop
In short, for all those “trash
disco idols who crooned their
rock” freaks out there who are
way into the hearts of pre-
waiting to have their libido
pubescent girls.
stimulated, buying AC/DC’s
The title track, “Dirty Deeds “Dirty Deeds” should be at the
Done Dirt Cheap,” is by far the head of their “things to do to
best. Snarling lyrics, savage in day” list...even if it does leave
strumentals and Bon Scott’s them feeling like going out and
voice team up to- form a biting a truck.
number of sheer animal feroci
ty unequaled by anything in
‘musical history. Once more, it
has absolutely no socially
redeeming features, but it’s so
brutally compelling that it just
doesn’t matter. On the other
side of the coin is a song, so
soft and melodic that, had it
not been for the lyrics, there
would be some doubt that it
really is AC/DC. This number,
“Big Balls,” ranks second best
on the album.
Other numbers, such as
“Love At First Feel,” “Problem
Child,” and “Squealer,” are
typical AC/DC, which is to
say, quite good. There are two
tracks on the album that are not
only very good, but very sur
prising. These, ‘‘I’m A Rocker”
arid “There’s Gonna Be Some
Wednesday, April 29, 1981
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Below —
Mime student Mike Clanton sneers
mischieviously during a mime class outing
where students paraded their new art on
campus.
To the Left—
Gina Hernandez concentrates intently on
impromptu mime while student watches
smiling.