Word: antisepticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Photography," says Walker Evans, "has nothing whatsoever to do with 'Art'. But," he adds quietly, "it's an art for all that." Visitors to Evans' retrospective exhibition at Chicago's Art Institute last week were sure to see his point. Evans' own undeniably artful...
In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley created a repulsively antiseptic future world in which everything was done scientifically by push buttons and chemistry. Last week, as over 100,000 people trooped through Manhattan's Grand Central Palace at the National Business Show, first since 1941, it appeared that the...
Canyons, in City and Country. But O'Keeffe's chief claim to fame lies in the brilliant hardness of her most ambitious work. Her cityscapes look as unyielding as asphalt, and sharp as broken glass; her barns are as antiseptic as hospitals; her crosses as forbidding as the...
THENARDOL, a new antiseptic for which the base is common household hydrogen peroxide, can be sprayed, inhaled, given to patients allergic to sulfa drugs or penicillin. Developed by Dr. Ethan Allan Brown of Boston, thenardol is super-safe, non-allergy-causing.
Sheeler's most recent picture, an oil storage tank surmounted by steel stairs, demonstrated how perfectly his antiseptic style applies to machine-age constructions. The title: It's a Small World (see cut). According to one enthusiast: "If . . . the dynamo has become a 20th-century Virgin, then Sheeler...