Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Found Objects. Born in Stockholm 40 years ago, he grew up in Chicago, where his father was Swedish consul general. "I lived a private, shy life," Oldenburg says, "built around an imaginary country I invented, called Neubern, located in the southern Atlantic." By the age of 16, he was spending a lot of time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would...
FIRST it seemed all Brillo boxes, hoked-up cartoon strips, billboard fragments-and met mostly loud guffaws. But after less than a decade Pop art has not only come of age; it has -such is the accelerated pulse of art movements today-almost become venerable. As a sure sign of esteem, New York's Guggenheim is now holding a retrospective of the comic-strip-inspired works of Roy Lichtenstein, and the saggy, baggy sculptures of Claes Oldenburg are on display at the Museum of Modern Art. The Whitney Museum, not to be outdone, will exhibit another major Pop artist...
...they treated, Oldenburg keeps those qualities as they are and instead changes their context (a hamburger sits on the floor), size (small things become gigantic) and state (soft instead of hard). The result is a sculpture of enormous intellectual compression; it shows the stress of gravity, the effect of age, the possibility of sensuality. As a result, his sculptures force the viewer to look at everyday things with the fresh eye of discovery...
...Keeler story recalls Fanny Hill and The Perils of Pauline more than the Duke of Windsor. The first installment tells how a teen-age Christine modeled a bikini for a male photographer who happened to wear women's shoes. Her further progress: a "black sweeper" deflowers her at 15 or 16, an American soldier gets her pregnant, a landlord spills his "vodka breath" all over her face, a wealthy Arab introduces her to Osteopath Stephen Ward, he introduces her to high society. In the second installment, she recalls a night with Soviet Spy Eugene Ivanov: "Then I threw...
...airlines or their passengers are happy with the tangled fare structure on North Atlantic routes. Travelers can be charged any one of more than 100 different fares to fly to the same city-depending upon their age and occupation, the starting point, the time of day or any one of a myriad other factors. Basic round-trip fares from New York to Rome, for example, range between $250 for special groups and $573 for twelvemonth economy. "When you put our present fares through a computer, they come out snarled like spaghetti," says Fabrizio Serena di Lapigio, the marketing director...