Word: artzybasheffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S cover-ink supply at low ebb? Or was it the intention of Artist Artzybasheff to depict a mass of colorful individuals who, upon entering through college portals, are alchemized into a great grey glob of flannel-suited, conforming nonentities...
Egad ! What a cover! Perchance-did Artist Artzybasheff dine on slings and arrows the night he dreamed...
...capture the excitement, diversity and oddity of U.S. inventiveness for this week's cover story on new products (see BUSINESS, Prometheus Unbound). Cover Artist Boris Artzybasheff stretched his easel, produced TIME'S second gatefold cover (the first a Christmas creche on Dec. 28, 1959). Artzy scorned a new machine that paints for the artist, used an old-fashioned good right hand to personify these new products...
They did just fine. A staff of six devoted a full two months to the project, consulted occasionally with Artist Artzybasheff, and produced seven lively models-made of Styrofoam with a papier-maché; and plastic covering. The wide-eyed, camera-wielding Tiros caricature became a wonderfully evocative, 8-ft.-wide monster; and the nose on the 8-ft.-long Vanguard III would arouse the envy of even Los Angeles Neighbor Jimmy Durante...
When Artist Artzybasheff was apprised of the stir his "clairvoyance" had created, he mused regretfully: "Oh, I forgot to put in those two Russian dogs, didn...