21. New Abstraction: Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland (29:14)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Introduces Kenneth Noland and Morris Louis, known as color-field painters among the New Abstractionists. Discusses their attitudes toward their works, and the factors and people influencing them. Shows examples of their works and those of Helen Frankenthaler.

22. Philip Roth (58:00)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Presents a discussion between Philip Roth, novelist and professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, and Jerre Manginne concerning Roth's stories and plays. Illustrates the relationship of his work to that of Saul Bellow, and discusses his reactions to critics' reviews.

23. Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell (29:14)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Interviews Richard Wilbur and Robert Lowell (Pulitzer Prize winners) and explores their interests in poetic expression, and the origins of the ideas in their respective poems. Presents Wilbur reading "On the Marginal Way," "Love Calls Us to the Things of This World," and "Advice to a Prophet." Shows Lowell reading "Water," "Soft Wood," "A Flaw," "Fall, 1961," and "The Opposite House."

24. Robert Creeley (28:55)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Provides a candid view of poet Robert Creeley in his home and introduces his poetry. Presents him describing the influences of other literary figures on his works and explaining his own method of working. Includes readings of several of his poems, such as "La Noche," "The First Time," "The Place," and "Someplace."

25. Robert Duncan and John Wieners (29:12)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Studies the return of romanticism to contemporary poetry through the poetry of Robert Duncan and John Wieners. Presents Duncan reading several poems, including "The Architecture," and excerpts from "A Biographical Note" and "A Statement on Poetics." Shows Wieners, a student of Duncan, reading "A Poem for Painters," "Cocaine," and an excerpt from an unpublished prose work.

26. Robert Rauschenberg (28:55)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Examines several of Robert Rauschenberg's works, including "Oracle," a piece of "radio-sculpture," scenes from his theatrical works "Spring Training" and "Pelican," and a painting called "Barge." Discusses why, at the peak of his fame as a painter, Rauschenberg stopped painting altogether and how he feels about his art. Includes a discussion by Leo Castelli, an art dealer and friend of Rauschenberg, about the artist as a person and the significance of his works.

27. S.J. Perelman (29:08)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Introduces the humorist S.J. Perelman and his opinions on a wide variety of subjects. Discusses the authors who have influenced him and the reasons why a writer must imitate somebody. Concludes with a talk about reading, F. Scott Fitzgerald, travel, and Nathanael West.

28. Sun and Richard Lippold (29:06)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Examines Richard Lippold's approach to the relationship between the artist's experience and the way in which he shapes it into its own organic form. Presents Lippod, a musician as well as sculptor, in his studio at the organ, and continues with some of his sculpture, including "The Sun." Shows shots of the sun and light in objects, people, animals, birds, and the sea as the types of experience providing inspiration to Lippold in creating "The Sun."

29. The Angry Negro (28:33)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Examines a number of opinions of Negro leaders as to the way the Negro should operate in his search for equality. Includes interviews with Elijah Muhammed of the Black Muslims; Daniel Watts, editor of Liberator magazine; Jimmy Garrett from the Congress of Racial Equality; Fannie Lou Hamer, one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; John Lewis, the co-founder, and Julian Bond of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee; Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Bill Epton, candidate from the Progressive Labor Party.

30. Vladimir Nabokov (28:57)

Date:
1966
Main contributors:
Indiana University, Bloomington. Audio-Visual Center
Summary:
Presents several interviews with Vladimir Nabokov, during which he talks freely about his life and work, his feelings about what the literary masterpieces of this country are, and what he thinks of American writing. Discusses the way he writes, and his past. Shows him informally walking about the village of Montreux, Switzerland, collecting butterflies and playing soccer and chess. Closes with a discussion, by Nabokov concerning his forthcoming novel.