Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Posters have been used to promote everything from Jane Avril to Zanzibar, but Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 42, believes that salesmanship begins at home. A new 17-ft. by 4½-ft. Rauschenberg poster at Manhattan's Whitney Museum advertises the artist himself. Entitled Autobiography, the gaudy billboard includes a life history in telegraphese, his horoscope, and a skeletal portrait of himself composed from 13 X rays. With the backing of a group headed by Poster-Art Enthusiast Marion Javits, wife of the U.S. Senator, 2,000 copies of the work will be reproduced and sold to hard-core...
...Kudos to Caricaturist David Levine for his truly memorable cover drawing of L.B.J. as a beleaguered Lear. Artist Levine is a worthy successor to Hogarth, Tenniel, Nast and Low-those forceful masters of effective caricature...
...artist credits his period as a billboard painter, following his departure from the University of Minnesota, with pointing him toward both the idiom and the mystique of the open road. He uses cars, planes and the notion of motion generally to convey what he considers basic American traits: devotion to progress and prodigality, record-shattering creativity and waste...
Strip See-Throughs. Lanai deals with the would-be starlets of Hollywood, but the artist builds it around an upside-down Buick to suggest both physical extravagance and social mobility. His metaphor is also central to the F-111, the 85-ft.-long anatomy of the costly, controversial fighter-bomber, which will go on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum next month. He used the F111 to symbolize, among other things, his indignation at the Kennedy assassination, which he sees as the supreme example of "horrible extravagance...
...massive; as a student, a tribal noble, and an artist, he claims at least three distinctions. People who talk with him talk on his own terms. To other Ivoirian students, he is sophisticated and French. To outsiders, he is a passionate defender of the Atye ways...