Visual Preferences (20th Century: 1972)

Georg Baselitz
Fingermalerei - Birken
1972
oil on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Ely Bielutin
Untitled
1972
oil on canvas
Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

Ilya Bolotowsky
Red Rectangle
1972
acrylic on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

William Christenberry
Cannon's Grocery
1972
C-print
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee

Joseph Cornell
Untitled (Derby Hat)
1972
paper collage with photogravure
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Jay DeFeo
Untitled
1972
gelatin silver print
Menil Collection, Houston

Equipo Realidad (art collective)
Home Sweet Home
1972
oil on canvas
Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Spain

Richard Estes
Oriental Cuisine
1972
screenprint
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine

Lee Friedlander
Chrysanthemums at Flower Market, Paris
1972
gelatin silver print
Art Institute of Chicago

Elisabeth Frink
The Pardoner's Tale
(illustration to The Canterbury Tales)
1972
etching and aquatint
Fralin Museum of Art, Charlottesville, Virginia

Sam Gilliam
Cordial I
1972
oil on canvas
NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Nan Goldin
Christmas at The Other Side, Boston
1972
gelatin silver print
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

Jörg Immendorff
Pose These Questions to the Artists - Insist on Answers!
1972
distemper on canvas
Hall Collection, Schloss Derneburg, Germany

Alfred Jensen
The Ten Thousand Things
1972
oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art

Roy Lichtenstein
Still Life with Pitcher
1972
oil on canvas
Seattle Art Museum

Frank Lobdell
Untitled
(series, Dance)
1972
oil on paper
San Jose Museum of Art, California

The History of Science

All fables of adventure stress 

The need for courtesy and kindness:

Without the Helpers none can win

The flaxen-haired Princess.

They look the ones in need of aid,

Yet, thanks to them, the gentle-hearted

Third Brother beds the woken Queen,

While seniors who made

Cantankerous replies to crones

And dogs who begged to share their rations,

Must expiate their pride as daws

Or wind-swept bachelor stones.

Few of a sequel, though, have heard:

Uneasy pedagogues have censored

All written reference to a brother

Younger than the Third. 

Soft-spoken as New Moon this Fourth,

A Sun of gifts to all he met with,

But when advised "Go South for a while!",

Smiled "Thank You!" and turned North,

Trusting some map in his own head,

So never reached the goal intended

(His map, of course, was out) but blundered

On a wonderful instead,

A tower not circular but square,

A treasure not of gold but silver:

He kissed a shorter Sleeper's hand

And stroked her raven hair.

Dare sound Authority confess

That one can err his way to riches,

Win glory by mistake, his dear

Through sheer wrong-headedness?

– W.H. Auden (1955)