sic uniformly thin, at once dilapi–
dated and overblown, and exhibit–
ing a poverty of thematic devel-
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opment and a richness of affec–
tation not only, apparently, inten–
tional, but enormously self-satisfied.
Whole-tone progressions and triple–
tongued runs are worked re–
lentlessly, far beyond the satura–
tion point. There has been nothing
like this in the way of an overcon–
sciousness of stylistic idiosyncrasy,
I should say, since the Gothic Re–
vival. Although bebop's defenders
reserve as their trump card this
music's "element of the · unex–
pected," it is precisely bebop's un–
deviating pattern of incoherence
and limitation that makes it pre–
dictable in the extreme, and ulti–
mately as boring as the projects of
Gutzon Borglum.
In Paris, where Erskine Cald–
well, Steinbeck, Henry Miller, and
Horace McCoy are best sellers and
"nobody reads Proust any more,"
where the post-Picasso painters
have sunk into torpor and repeti–
tion, and where intellectuals are
more cynically Stalinized than in
any other city in the world, bebop
is vastly admired. Evidently Gresh–
am's and Epstean's laws work with
equal severity in other countries
besides the United States, although
a lot of people are taking Christ's
own time finding it out.
Weldon Kees
the hans hofmann school of fine art
52 west 8th street
new york
city
province town, mass.
june
14 - sept. 3
622
phone gramercy 7-3491
summer session
personally conducted
by mr. hofmann
