Yet ultimately, abstraction continues to be a viable creative path for contemporary artists of all generations, many of whom embrace it as the most inclusive and fundamentally resonant of artistic languages. A visit with the principals of seven architectural practices at the sites of their best work to date in many parts of Germany. The eleven architects, all born after World War II, give insight into the situation of architecture and the architect in Germany today, a country which played a key role in the advance of modernism. The consensus among the architects is hope for a future when architecture can regain the creative dynamism that prevailed in the 1920's, the heyday of the Bauhaus. While the quality of today's work is extremely high, the underlying ideas come largely from abroad.
Technology is in the foreground at the universities, at the expense of artistic experimentation.
In 1968, we had the opportunity to spend time with Thelonius Monk and his musicians, following him in New York, Atlanta, and in various European cities. The members of the quartet were Charlie Rouse, Larry Gales, and Ben Riley. The group was joined on the European tour by Ray Copeland, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, and Johnny Griffin. They were part of George Wein's Newport Jazz Festival road company. In a visit to the famous art collection in their ample duplex on New York's East Side, Sally and Victor Ganz describe how they began to collect art in the 1940's.