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...categories: works of visual humor and three-dimensional drawings of literary witticisms. While plenty of fine, hard-to-handle glazes and well-made vessels were shown, the ceramicists (concentrated at Boston University) seemed to be the chief jokesters among craftsmen. In his six-foot high "Alice House Wall" Robert Arneson builds earthenware "stones" into a picture of a landscape with a ranch house. But its humor isn't in the subject-it's in the way the "stones" jostle and hug each other, and how the different blues, greens, oranges, pinks, and other unevenly applied glazes look next...
Specimens & Offerings. In San Francisco, Robert Arneson, 37, started out making pornographic telephones incorporating both male and female genitalia and typewriters with keyboards of secretaries' red-nailed fingers. He has since graduated to relatively clean flowerpots and realistic, 8-ft.-long clay models of his ranch house at 1303 Alice Street. Australian-born Margaret Dodd has created a rococo ceramic line of miniature cars, ranging from a Volkswagen microbus to a 1937 La Salle. David Gilhooly, 25, molds dyspeptic hippos, crocodiles and warthogs that possess much of the pudgy charm of their 6-ft. 5-in. 250-lb. creator...
...longer. Last week a show of funk art at the Berkeley museum drew thousands of the curious, intrigued by reports that funk art is also often more than a little obscene. Robert Arneson's vaguely phallic telephone, with LOVER spelled out on its dial, is merely suggestive, but William Morehouse's The Colony had a fatherly security guard blushing furiously as he confided to a female gallerygoer that "some people say those round things are supposed to be female organs...
Under the flags stood Boston's most faithful counterdemonstrators, the Polish Freedom Fighters, brandishing a "Bomb Hanoi" placard. One of them, who gave his name as Cliff Arneson and said he had just gotten out of the service, mounted an overturned trash can and began haranguing people about the necessity to fight in Vietnam "to preserve our freedom and theirs...
...Great Society finally has has found a genre worthy of it. Pocket Books, Inc. has published The Great Society Comic Book, coauthored by D.J. Arneson and Tony Tallarico. Featuring such greats as Bobman and Teddy, Gaullefinger, and Superlbj, it is worth approximately seven of the ten minutes it takes to read it. Ideologically wrong, of course, but it only costs a dollar. And the battle between Wonderbird and Chefman is an historical document...