Word: artful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...neomodernism. One Eisenman house had a column in the bedroom that precluded a bed, another a hole in the floor and a stairway that ran from the ceiling halfway down a wall. The architect used to say he would not dream of living in one of his houses ("Art and life are two different things...
...almost every turn. The new building (paid for mainly by O.S.U. alumnus and Columbus-based retailer Leslie Wexner) may have been the perfect project for this hyperintellectualizing bad boy to prove himself on: it was conceived by the university as both a museum and a seedbed for avant-garde art, from Anselm Kiefer paintings to Pina Bausch performances to a new video installation that displays images from the building's surveillance cameras. Did the university want a fin-de-siecle monument to erudite monomania, inspired nervousness, the intriguing lunatic gesture? Eisenman was the man for the job. "I get weepy...
...ART...
...always been fascinated by the concept of the untouchable caste, whether it's cancer victims, drug addicts, Latin women, homosexuals. An overriding concern of mine is to touch the untouchables and to show their humanity. Unfortunately, the more chaotic the society, the greater is the desire for conservative, nonconfrontational art...
...characters says, "To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds." A garden requires discipline to tend it. It needs flexibility, stamina. I think I was also talking about the garden as being a metaphor for art, a life well lived...