Page 28 - Studio International - November 1967

Frank Stella
Adelante 1964
metallic paint on canvas
8 x 12½ ft.
Kasmin Ltd, London

Claes Oldenburg
Pie a la mode 1962
plaster sculpture with
enamel paint
20 x 21 x 11 in.
Galerie Saqqarah, Gstaad

himself in a caterer's or titillator's position to his public— as Joad complained exactly in the tendency to drop the
that is, of confirming rather than projecting its needs. object, the work of art in all its complexities—from the
Surely here is a new kind of warfare, more subtle and less realities of human experience. One thereby anaesthetizes
wholesome than the old fashioned struggle of the neglec- the discomfort that any serious confrontation with the
ted genius for recognition. If it means anything to call work would provoke, even as one credits it as the distur-
this development decadent—and I think it does—it lies bance it no longer, in effect, is allowed to be. Essentially,